Gravity in the infrared and effective nonlocal models

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/010zbMATH Open1491.83007arXiv2001.07619OpenAlexW3001369971MaRDI QIDQ5068451FDOQ5068451

Authors: Enis Belgacem, Yves Dirian, Andreas Finke, Stefano Foffa, Michele Maggiore 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

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

Abstract: We provide a systematic and updated discussion of a research line carried out by our group over the last few years, in which gravity is modified at cosmological distances by the introduction of nonlocal terms, assumed to emerge at an effective level from the infrared behavior of the quantum theory. The requirement of producing a viable cosmology turns out to be very stringent and basically selects a unique model, in which the nonlocal term describes an effective mass for the conformal mode. We discuss how such a specific structure could emerge from a fundamental local theory of gravity, and we perform a detailed comparison of this model with the most recent cosmological datasets, confirming that it fits current data at the same level as $Lambda$CDM. Most notably, the model has striking predictions in the sector of tensor perturbations, leading to a very large effect in the propagation of gravitational wave (GWs) over cosmological distances. At the redshifts relevant for the next generation of GW detectors such as Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer and LISA, this leads to deviations from GR that could be as large as $80\mathrm{\%}$, and could be verified with the detection of just a single coalescing binary with electromagnetic counterpart. This would also have potentially important consequences for the search of the counterpart since, for a given luminosity distance to the source, as inferred through the GW signal, the actual source redshift could be significantly different from that predicted by $Lambda$CDM. At the redshifts relevant for advanced LIGO/Virgo/Kagra the effect is smaller, but still potentially observable over a few years of runs at target sensitivity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07619

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theorygravitational waves/sources

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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