Modified Regge calculus as an explanation of dark energy

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/5/055015zbMATH Open1237.83014arXiv1110.3973OpenAlexW1975039816MaRDI QIDQ2880862FDOQ2880862

Authors: M. Silberstein, W. M. Stuckey, T. J. McDevitt 

Publication date: 17 April 2012

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

Abstract: Using Regge calculus, we construct a Regge differential equation for the time evolution of the scale factor $a(t)$ in the Einstein-de Sitter cosmology model (EdS). We propose two modifications to the Regge calculus approach: 1) we allow the graphical links on spatial hypersurfaces to be large, as in direct particle interaction when the interacting particles reside in different galaxies, and 2) we assume luminosity distance $D_L$ is related to graphical proper distance $D_p$ by the equation $D_L=(1+z)sqrtoverrightarrow{D}_{p}cdotoverrightarrow{D}_p$, where the inner product can differ from its usual trivial form. The modified Regge calculus model (MORC), EdS and $Lambda$CDM are compared using the data from the Union2 Compilation, i.e., distance moduli and redshifts for type Ia supernovae. We find that a best fit line through $displaystylelog(frac{D}_{L}Gpc)$ versus $logz$ gives a correlation of 0.9955 and a sum of squares error (SSE) of 1.95. By comparison, the best fit $Lambda$CDM gives SSE = 1.79 using $H_o$ = 69.2 km/s/Mpc, $Omeg{a}_M$ = 0.29 and $Omeg{a}_{Lambda}$ = 0.71. The best fit EdS gives SSE = 2.68 using $H_o$ = 60.9 km/s/Mpc. The best fit MORC gives SSE = 1.77 and $H_o$ = 73.9 km/s/Mpc using $R=A^{-1}$ = 8.38 Gcy and $m=1.71imes10^{52}$ kg, where $R$ is the current graphical proper distance between nodes, $A^{-1}$ is the scaling factor from our non-trival inner product, and $m$ is the nodal mass. Thus, MORC improves EdS as well as $Lambda$CDM in accounting for distance moduli and redshifts for type Ia supernovae without having to invoke accelerated expansion, i.e., there is no dark energy and the universe is always decelerating.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3973

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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