Repulsive gravity induced by a conformally coupled scalar field implies a bouncing radiation-dominated universe

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2219-6MaRDI QIDQ1698542zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peng Zhang

Publication date 15 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03060

zbMATH Keywords

bouncing cosmologygravitational repulsionnon-minimal couplingscalar fieldsymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In the present work we revisit a model consisting of a scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential non-minimally (conformally) coupled to gravity [1]. When the scalar field vacuum is in a broken symmetry state, an effective gravitational constant emerges which, in certain regimes, can lead to gravitational repulsive effects when only ordinary radiation is coupled to gravity. In this case, a bouncing universe is shown to be the only cosmological solution admissible by the field equations when the scalar field is in such a broken symmetry state.

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