Cosmological instability of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories exhibiting scalarization

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/023MaRDI QIDQ5862983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timothy Anson, Eugeny Babichev, Christos Charmousis, Sabir Ramazanov

Publication date 10 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02399

zbMATH Keywords

inflationmodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In a subclass of scalar-tensor theories, it has been shown that standard general relativity solutions of neutron stars and black holes with trivial scalar field profiles are unstable. Such an instability leads to solutions which are different from those of general relativity and have non-trivial scalar field profiles, in a process called scalarization. In the present work we focus on scalarization due to a non-minimal coupling of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet curvature invariant. The coupling acts as a tachyonic mass for the scalar mode, thus leading to the instability of general relativity solutions. We point out that a similar effect may occur for the scalar modes in a cosmological background, resulting in the instability of cosmological solutions. In particular, we show that a catastrophic instability develops during inflation within a period of time much shorter than the minimum required duration of inflation. As a result, the standard cosmological dynamics is not recovered. This raises the question of the viability of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories exhibiting scalarization.

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