Constraints on late time violations of the equivalence principle in the dark sector

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/015zbMATH Open1522.83099arXiv2210.09732MaRDI QIDQ6044342FDOQ6044342

Authors: C. van de Bruck 

Publication date: 17 May 2023

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

Abstract: If dark energy is dynamical due to the evolution of a scalar field, then in general it is expected that the scalar is coupled to matter. While couplings to the standard model particles are highly constrained by local experiments, bounds on couplings to dark matter (DM) are only obtained from cosmological observations and they are consequently weaker. It has recently been pointed out that the coupling itself can become non-zero only at the time of dark energy domination, due to the evolution of dark energy itself, leading to a violation of the equivalence principle (EP) in the dark sector at late times. In this paper we study a specific model and show that such late-time violations of the EP in the DM sector are not strongly constrained by the evolution of the cosmological background and by observables in the linear regime (e.g. from the cosmic microwave background radiation). A study of perturbations in non-linear regime is necessary to constrain late--time violations of the equivalence principle much more strongly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09732

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theorycosmological parameters from CMBR

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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