Unifying Einstein and Palatini gravities

We consider a novel class of f(R) gravity theories where the connection is related to the conformally scaled metric ˆgμν=C(R)gμν with a scaling that depends on the scalar curvature R only. We call them C theories and show that the Einstein and Palatini gravities can be obtained as special limits. In...

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Hauptverfasser: Amendola, Luca (VerfasserIn) , Enqvist, Kari (VerfasserIn) , Koivisto, Tomi (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 8 February 2011
In: Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
Year: 2011, Jahrgang: 83, Heft: 4, Pages: 044016
ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044016
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044016
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Verfasserangaben:Luca Amendola (Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany), Kari Enqvist (Physics Department, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki), Tomi Koivisto (Institute for Theoretical Physics and Spinoza Institute, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Zusammenfassung:We consider a novel class of f(R) gravity theories where the connection is related to the conformally scaled metric ˆgμν=C(R)gμν with a scaling that depends on the scalar curvature R only. We call them C theories and show that the Einstein and Palatini gravities can be obtained as special limits. In addition, C theories include completely new physically distinct gravity theories even when f(R)=R. With nonlinear f(R), C theories interpolate and extrapolate the Einstein and Palatini cases and may avoid some of their conceptual and observational problems. We further show that C theories have a scalar-tensor formulation, which in some special cases reduces to simple Brans-Dicke-type gravity. If matter fields couple to the connection, the conservation laws in C theories are modified. The stability of perturbations about flat space is determined by a simple condition on the Lagrangian.
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ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044016