An expansion of well tempered gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/074MaRDI QIDQ5026041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric V. Linder, Stephen A. Appleby

Publication date 7 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03965

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories (18M15) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: When faced with two nigh intractable problems in cosmology -- how to remove the original cosmological constant problem and how to parametrize modified gravity to explain current cosmic acceleration -- we can make progress by counterposing them. The well tempered solution to the cosmological constant through degenerate scalar field dynamics also relates disparate Horndeski gravity terms, making them contrapuntal. We derive the connection between the kinetic term $K$ and braiding term $G_3$ for shift symmetric theories (including the running Planck mass $G_4$), extending previous work on monomial or binomial dependence to polynomials of arbitrary finite degree. We also exhibit an example for an infinite series expansion. This contrapuntal condition greatly reduces the number of parameters needed to test modified gravity against cosmological observations, for these "golden" theories of gravity.

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