Journal
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 319-343Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-012-1473-x
Keywords
Metric-affine gravity; TeVeS; Vector inflation
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The metric-affine gravity provides a useful framework for analyzing gravitational dynamics since it treats metric tensor and affine connection as fundamentally independent variables. In this work, we show that, a metric-affine gravity theory composed of the invariants formed from non-metricity, torsion and curvature tensors can be decomposed into a theory of scalar, vector and tensor fields. These fields are natural candidates for the ones needed by various cosmological and other phenomena. Indeed, we show that the model accommodates TeVeS gravity (relativistic modified gravity theory), vector inflation, and aether-like models. Detailed analyses of these and other phenomena can lead to a standard metric-affine gravity model encoding scalars, vectors and tensors.
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