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Cosmic expansion in extended quasidilaton massive gravity

Tina Kahniashvili, Arjun Kar, George Lavrelashvili, Nishant Agarwal, Lavinia Heisenberg, and Arthur Kosowsky
Phys. Rev. D 91, 041301(R) – Published 17 February 2015; Erratum Phys. Rev. D 100, 089902 (2019)

Abstract

Quasidilaton massive gravity offers a physically well-defined gravitational theory with nonzero graviton mass. We present the full set of dynamical equations governing the expansion history of the Universe, valid during radiation domination, matter domination, and a late-time self-accelerating epoch related to the graviton mass. The existence of self-consistent solutions constrains the amplitude of the quasidilaton field and the graviton mass, as well as other model parameters. We point out that the effective mass of gravitational waves can be significantly larger than the graviton mass, opening the possibility that a single theory can explain both the late-time acceleration of cosmic expansion and modifications of structure growth leading to the suppression of large-angle correlations observed in the cosmic microwave background.

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  • Received 20 January 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.041301

© 2015 American Physical Society

Erratum

Erratum: Cosmic expansion in extended quasidilaton massive gravity [Phys. Rev. D 91, 041301(R) (2015)]

Tina Kahniashvili, Arjun Kar, George Lavrelashvili, Nishant Agarwal, Lavinia Heisenberg, and Arthur Kosowsky
Phys. Rev. D 100, 089902 (2019)

Authors & Affiliations

Tina Kahniashvili1,2,3,*, Arjun Kar1,†, George Lavrelashvili4,5,‡, Nishant Agarwal6,7,§, Lavinia Heisenberg8,9,∥, and Arthur Kosowsky10,11,¶

  • 1The McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C, Canada
  • 3Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia State University, 3-5 Cholokashvili Avenue, Tbilisi, GE-0194, Georgia
  • 4Department of Theoretical Physics, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute, I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, GE-0177 Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 5Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
  • 6Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 7Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 8Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
  • 9Department of Physics & The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova University Centre, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
  • 10Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 USA
  • 11Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 USA

  • *tinatin@andrew.cmu.edu
  • arjunkar@andrew.cmu.edu
  • lavrela@itp.unibe.ch
  • §nua11@psu.edu
  • laviniah@kth.se
  • kosowsky@pitt.edu

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Vol. 91, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2015

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