Cosmology with scalar-Euler form coupling

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/13/135003MaRDI QIDQ2845903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adolfo Toloza, Jorge Zanelli

Publication date 3 September 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0821

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyEuler 4-formFriedmann-Robertson-Walker-Lemaître modelJackiw-Teitelboim actiontorsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: A coupling between the spacetime geometry and a scalar field involving the Euler four-form can have important consequences in General Relativity. The coupling is a four-dimensional version of the Jackiw-Teitelboim action, in which a scalar couples to the Euler two-form in two dimensions. In this case the first order formalism, in which the vierbein (or the metric) and the spin connection (or the afine connection) are varied independently, is not equivalent to the second order one, in which the geometry is completely determined by the metric. This is because the torsion postulate (T=0) is not valid and one cannot algebraically solve the spin connection from its own field equation. The direct consequence of this obstruction is that the torsion becomes a new source for the metric curvature, and even if the scalar field is very slowly varying over cosmic scales as to have no observable astronomical efects at the galactic scale, it has important dynamical efects that can give rise to a cosmological evolution radically diferent from the standard FRWL model.

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