Dark energy loopholes some time after GW170817

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/063zbMATH Open1486.83065arXiv2006.06652OpenAlexW3035113871MaRDI QIDQ5035313FDOQ5035313

Authors: Lorenzo Bordin, E. J. Copeland, Antonio Padilla 

Publication date: 21 February 2022

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

Abstract: We revisit the constraints on scalar tensor theories of modified gravity following the purge of GW170817. We pay particular attention to dynamical loopholes where the anomalous speed of propagation of the gravitational wave can vanish on-shell, when we impose the dynamical field equations. By working in the effective field theory formalism we are able to improve on previous analyses, scanning a much wider class of theories, including Beyond Horndeski and DHOST. Furthermore, the formalism is well adapted to consider the effect of inhomogeneous perturbations, where we explicitly take into account the fact that the galactic overdensities are pressureless to leading order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06652

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zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theorygravitational waves/theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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