期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/034
关键词
dark energy theory; modified gravity; quantum cosmology
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics [de-sc0011632]
- NSF [PHY-1506513, PHY-1806218]
- Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida
We present an improved version of our original cosmological model to explain the current phase of cosmological acceleration without resorting to a cosmological constant or any other mass scale. Like the original, this phenomenological approach is based on an effective quantum gravitational action, but now depends on the original nonlocal dimensionless scalar X = square(-1) R only through Y = square(-1) g(mu nu) X,X-mu,(nu). Both X and Y are quiescent during the radiation-dominated (R = 0) era, both only grow logarithmically during matter dominance, and neither affects the propagation of gravitational radiation. However, while X has the same sign for gravitationally bound systems as for cosmology, we show that the sign of Y differs for the two cases: it is positive for cosmology and negative for strongly gravitationally bound systems. We can therefore enforce the Lambda CDM expansion history by making a suitable choice of the nonlocal distortion function f (Y) for Y > 0, while ensuring that there is no change in the heavily constrained solar system phenomenology simply by making f vanish for Y < 0 without discontinuity. The required f (Y > 0) is determined numerically to have a strikingly simple exponential form.
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