Stability conditions for the Horndeski scalar field gravity model

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/008MaRDI QIDQ5099236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cláudio Gomes, O. Bertolami

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14429

zbMATH Keywords

gravitymodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

Abstract: We constrain the viable models of Horndeski gravity, written in its equivalent Generalised Galileon version, by resorting to the Witten positive energy theorem. We find that the free function $G_3(phi,X)$ in the Lagrangian is constrained to be a function solely of the scalar field, $G_3(phi)$, and relations among the free functions are found. Other criterion for stability are also analysed, such as the attractiveness of gravity, the Dolgov-Kawasacki instability and the energy conditions. Some applications for Cosmology are discussed

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