Towards a sound massive cosmology

Publication date: January 2019Source: Physics of the Dark Universe, Volume 23Author(s): Hongsheng Zhang, Ya-peng Hu, Yi ZhangAbstractIt is known that de Rham–Gabadadze–Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity does not permit a homogeneous and isotropic universe with flat or spherical spatial metrics. We demonstrate that a singular reference metric solves this problem in an economic and straightforward way. In the dRGT massive gravity with a singular reference metric, there are sound homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions. We investigate cosmologies with the static and dynamical singular reference metrics, respectively. The term like dark energy appears naturally and the universe accelerates itself in some late time evolution. The term simulating dark matter also naturally emerges. We make a preliminary constraint on the parameters in the dRGT massive gravity in frame of the present cosmological model by using the data of supernovae, cosmic microwave back ground radiations, and baryonic acoustic oscillations.

Source: Physics of the Dark Universe - January 11, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research