A theory of type-II minimally modified gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/034zbMATH Open1493.83014OpenAlexW3180285548MaRDI QIDQ5070945FDOQ5070945

Authors Antonio De Felice, Andreas Doll, Shinji Mukohyama

Publication date 14 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12549

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: We propose a modified gravity theory that propagates only two local gravitational degrees of freedom and that does not have an Einstein frame. According to the classification in JCAP 01 (2019) 017 [arXiv:1810.01047 [gr-qc]], this is a type-II minimally modified gravity theory. The theory is characterized by the gravitational constant $G_{mN}$ and a function $V(phi)$ of a non-dynamical auxiliary field $phi$ that plays the role of dark energy. Once one fixes a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological background, the form of $V(phi)$ is determined and the theory no longer possesses a free parameter or a free function, besides $G_{mN}$. For $V^{\prime }(phi)=0$ the theory reduces to general relativity (GR) with $G_N$ being the Newton's constant and $V=const.$ being the cosmological constant. For $V^{\prime }(phi)e0$, it is shown that gravity behaves differently from GR but that GR with $G_{mN}$ being the Newton's constant is recovered for weak gravity at distance and time scales sufficiently shorter than the scale associated with $V(phi)$. Therefore this theory provides the simplest framework of cosmology in which deviations from GR can be tested by observational data.

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