Strong energy condition and the repulsive character of f(R) gravity

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2212-0zbMATH Open1380.83220arXiv1606.02212OpenAlexW3103587046MaRDI QIDQ1698535FDOQ1698535

Salvatore Capozziello, J. S. Alcaniz, Crislane S. Santos, J. Santos

Publication date: 15 February 2018

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Raychaudhuri equation enables to examine the whole spacetime structure without specific solutions of Einstein's equations, playing a central role for the understanding of the gravitational interaction in Cosmology. In General Relativity, without considering a cosmological constant, a non-positive contribution in the Raychaudhuri equation is usually interpreted as the manifestation of the attractive character of gravity. In this case, particular energy conditions -- indeed the strong energy condition -- must be assumed in order to guarantee the attractive character. In the context of f(R) gravity, however, even assuming the standard energy conditions one may have a positive contribution to the Raychaudhuri equation. Besides providing a simple way to explain the observed cosmic acceleration, this fact opens the possibility of a repulsive character of this kind of gravity. In order to discuss physical bounds on f(R) models, we address the attractive/non-attractive character of f(R) gravity considering the Raychaudhuri equation and assuming the strong energy condition along with recent estimates of the cosmographic parameters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02212

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zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityenergy conditions\(\mathrm{f}(\mathrm{R})\) theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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