An expansion of well tempered gravity

When faced with two nigh intractable problems in cosmology — how to remove the original cosmological constant problem and how to parametrize modified gravity to explain current cosmic acceleration — we can make progress by counterposing them. The well tempered solution to the cosmological constant t...

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Published in:Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2021-03, Vol.2021 (3), p.74
Main Authors: Linder, Eric V., Appleby, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Braiding
Cosmological constant
Cosmology
Infinite series
Parameter modification
Polynomials
Scalars
Series expansion
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Summary:When faced with two nigh intractable problems in cosmology — how to remove the original cosmological constant problem and how to parametrize modified gravity to explain current cosmic acceleration — we can make progress by counterposing them. The well tempered solution to the cosmological constant through degenerate scalar field dynamics also relates disparate Horndeski gravity terms, making them contrapuntal. We derive the connection between the kinetic term K and braiding term G 3 for shift symmetric theories (including the running Planck mass G 4 ), extending previous work on monomial or binomial dependence to polynomials of arbitrary finite degree. We also exhibit an example for an infinite series expansion. This contrapuntal condition greatly reduces the number of parameters needed to test modified gravity against cosmological observations, for these "golden" theories of gravity.
ISSN:1475-7516
1475-7516
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/074