Observational effects of varying speed of light in quadratic gravity cosmological models

DOI10.1142/S0219887818500846zbMATH Open1387.83065OpenAlexW3104391474MaRDI QIDQ4635350FDOQ4635350

Authors Azam Izadi, Shadi Sajedi Shacker, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Robi Banerjee

Publication date 16 April 2018

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06923

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityPalatini formalismvarying speed of lightcausal structure constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We study different manifestations of the speed of light in theories of gravity where metric and connection are regarded as independent fields. We find that for a generic gravity theory in a frame with locally vanishing affine connection, the usual degeneracy between different manifestations of the speed of light is broken. In particular, the space-time causal structure constant ($c_{ST}$) may become variable in that local frame. For theories of the form $f(R,R^{muu}{R}_{muu})$, this variation in $c_{ST}$ has an impact on the definition of the luminosity distance (and distance modulus), which can be used to confront the predictions of particular models against Supernovae type Ia (SN Ia) data. We carry out this test for a quadratic gravity model without cosmological constant assuming i) a constant speed of light and ii) a varying speed of light, and find that the latter scenario is favored by the data.

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