Minimal theory of massive gravity and constraints on the graviton mass

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/011zbMATH Open1487.83058arXiv2110.01237OpenAlexW3203156143MaRDI QIDQ5064652FDOQ5064652

Masroor C. Pookkillath, Antonio De Felice, Shinji Mukohyama

Publication date: 16 March 2022

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

Abstract: The Minimal theory of Massive Gravity (MTMG) is endowed non-linearly with only two tensor modes in the gravity sector which acquire a non-zero mass. On a homogeneous and isotropic background the theory is known to possess two branches: the self-accelerating branch with a phenomenology in cosmology which, except for the mass of the tensor modes, exactly matches the one of $Lambda$CDM; and the normal branch which instead shows deviation from General Relativity in terms of both background and linear perturbations dynamics. For the latter branch we study using several early and late times data sets the constraints on today's value of the graviton mass $m{u}_0$, finding that $(m{u}_0/H_0{)}^2=0.119_{-0.098}^{+0.12}$ at $68\mathrm{\%}$ CL, which in turn gives an upper bound at $95\mathrm{\%}$ CL as $m{u}_0<8.4imes10^{-34}$ eV. This corresponds to the strongest bound on the mass of the graviton for the normal branch of MTMG.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01237

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theorycosmological parameters from CMBR

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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Cited In (12)

• Effective cuscuton theory
• On the impact of Majorana masses in gravity-matter systems
• Minimal massive 3D gravity unitarity redux
• Minimal massive 3D gravity
• An alternative derivation of the minimal massive 3D gravity
• Observational bounds on extended minimal theories of massive gravity: new limits on the graviton mass
• Gravitational collapse and formation of a black hole in a type II minimally modified gravity theory
• Minimal Theory of Bigravity: construction and cosmology
• Theory of interacting vector dark energy and fluid
• The cosmological impact of brane-Chern-Simons massive gravity
• The mass of the graviton and the cosmological constant
• The \(\Lambda_{2}\) limit of massive gravity

Uses Software

• MontePython 3
• Monte Python
• CLASS

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