Constraining the cosmological evolution of scalar-tensor theories with local measurements of the time variation of G

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/060MaRDI QIDQ5070299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clare Burrage, Johannes Dombrowski

Publication date 11 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14260

zbMATH Keywords

dark energy theorymodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G20) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We determine the conditions for which the constraints from lunar laser ranging on the time evolution of the local gravitational constant can be extrapolated to impose constraints on the time evolution of the cosmological gravitational constant in scalar-tensor theories of modified gravity. We allow for the possibility that the scalar-tensor theories are non-linear and contain a screening mechanism. This results in strong constraints on the running of the cosmological Planck mass described by the Horndeski function $|alph{a}_M|lesssim0.002$. We find that our assumptions are valid for most Vainshtein and kinetic screening models, where the shift symmetry $phiightarrowphi+c$ holds, but are violated by some Chameleon and Symmetron screening models, where the macroscopic equivalence principle is broken.

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• Limited modified gravity
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