Viable cosmological solutions in massive bimetric gravity

We find the general conditions for viable cosmological solution at the background level in bigravity models. Furthermore, we constrain the parameters by comparing to the Union 2.1 supernovae catalog and identify, in some cases analytically, the best fit parameter or the degeneracy curve among pairs...

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Hauptverfasser: Könnig, Frank (VerfasserIn) , Patil, Aashay (VerfasserIn) , Amendola, Luca (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal) Kapitel/Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2014
In: Arxiv

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Verfasserangaben:Frank Könnig, Aashay Patil, Luca Amendola
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Zusammenfassung:We find the general conditions for viable cosmological solution at the background level in bigravity models. Furthermore, we constrain the parameters by comparing to the Union 2.1 supernovae catalog and identify, in some cases analytically, the best fit parameter or the degeneracy curve among pairs of parameters. We point out that a bimetric model with a single free parameter predicts a simple relation between the equation of state and the density parameter, fits well the supernovae data and is a valid and testable alternative to $\Lambda$CDM. Additionally, we identify the conditions for a phantom behavior and show that viable bimetric cosmologies cannot cross the phantom divide.
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