Cosmological perturbations of TDiff fields

This work studies cosmological perturbations in scalar field theories that break diffeomorphism invariance down to transverse diffeomorphisms. It develops a covariantized approach to analyze pressure perturbations and adiabaticity, finding that general multi-field TDiff models are not necessarily adiabatic. Stability is examined based on the speed of sound, which remains positive under certain conditions.

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