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Modified Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration: Now and in the Early Universe
Jiroušek, Pavel ; Vikman, Alexander (advisor) ; Mukohyama, Shinji (referee) ; Sawicki, Ignacy (referee)
We review our previous works which explored the problems of dark energy and cos- mological constant problem in the context of modified gravity. In the first part, we present extensions of mimetic dark matter. The latter is a Weyl-invariant scalar-tensor theory able to describe dark matter on cosmological scales. In our works we have extended the mimetic construction to vector fields and Yang-Mills gauge fields. The resulting theories provided a novel Weyl-invariant and higher derivative formulations of unimodular gravity. We also introduced a mixture of this mimetic dark energy with mimetic dark matter and showed that it results in k-essence like scalar theory. In the second part we reviewed a minimal modification of Einstein equations, in which their trace part is made trivial. This results in the Newton constant becoming a global degree of freedom. Consequently, the Newton constant is subjected to quantum fluctuations and uncertainty relations. We find that the same applies to the effective Planck constant in a certain classically equivalent formulation of this gravity modification. Finally, we present an analysis of tensor perturbations in the recently proposed models of minimally varying cosmological constant. In these theories, extending Einstein-Cartan gravity, the cosmological constant is allowed to...
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Rozšířená mimetická gravitace
Jiroušek, Pavel ; Vikman, Alexander (advisor)
We consider a novel extension of the recently proposed mimetic gravity. The latter is a scalar-tensor theory which is able to describe dark matter on cosmological scales. Moreover, this theory can be considered as a low energy limit of the projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The proposed novel extension directly couples gradients of the mimetic scalar field to the curvature tensor. These couplings introduce into the energy momentum tensor an anisotropic stress which is non-vanishing even at the first order in perturbations around a cosmological background. Further we show that such terms modify the formula for the speed of sound of scalar perturbations and even more importantly change the speed of propagation for the gravitational waves. The appearance of the anisotropic stress and the consequent nontrivial speed of propagation of the gravity waves are new phenomena which were not present in the previously studied mimetic models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the effective Newton's gravitational constant in the background Friedmann equations is shifted in the presence of the novel couplings of the mimetic scalar field. We calculate the quadratic action for scalar and tensor perturbations and briefly discuss possible instabilities. Finally we consider the current observational bounds on the model....
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Selected problems in relativistic cosmology
Kerachian, Morteza ; Bičák, Jiří (advisor) ; Balek, Vladimír (referee) ; Vikman, Alexander (referee)
In this work, we studied three selected problems in FRW spacetime. In the first part, we analysed the motion of a test particle in the homogeneous and isotropic universe. We presented a framework in which one can derive the uniformly accelerated trajectory and geodesic motion if a scale factor for a given spacetime is provided as a function of coordinate time. By applying the confomal time transformation, we were able to convert second order differential equations of motion in FRW spacetime to first order differential equations. From this, we managed to obtain a formalism to derive the uniformly accelerated trajectory of a test particle in spatially curved FRW spacetime. The second part of this work is devoted to dynamical cosmology. In particular, we analyse the cases of barotropic fluids and non-minimally coupled scalar field in spatially curved FRW spacetime. First, we set up the dynamical systems for an unspecified EoS of a barotropic fluid case and an unspecified positive potential for a non-minimal coupled scalar field case. For both of these systems, we determined well-defined dynamical variables valid for all curvatures. In the framework of these general setups we discovered several characteristic features of the systems, such as invariant subsets, symmetries, critical points and their...
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Rozšířená mimetická gravitace
Jiroušek, Pavel ; Vikman, Alexander (advisor)
We consider a novel extension of the recently proposed mimetic gravity. The latter is a scalar-tensor theory which is able to describe dark matter on cosmological scales. Moreover, this theory can be considered as a low energy limit of the projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The proposed novel extension directly couples gradients of the mimetic scalar field to the curvature tensor. These couplings introduce into the energy momentum tensor an anisotropic stress which is non-vanishing even at the first order in perturbations around a cosmological background. Further we show that such terms modify the formula for the speed of sound of scalar perturbations and even more importantly change the speed of propagation for the gravitational waves. The appearance of the anisotropic stress and the consequent nontrivial speed of propagation of the gravity waves are new phenomena which were not present in the previously studied mimetic models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the effective Newton's gravitational constant in the background Friedmann equations is shifted in the presence of the novel couplings of the mimetic scalar field. We calculate the quadratic action for scalar and tensor perturbations and briefly discuss possible instabilities. Finally we consider the current observational bounds on the model....
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Rozšířená mimetická gravitace
Jiroušek, Pavel ; Vikman, Alexander (advisor) ; Novotný, Jiří (referee)
We consider a novel extension of the recently proposed mimetic gravity. The latter is a scalar-tensor theory which is able to describe dark matter on cosmological scales. Moreover, this theory can be considered as a low energy limit of the projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The proposed novel extension directly couples gradients of the mimetic scalar field to the curvature tensor. These couplings introduce into the energy momentum tensor an anisotropic stress which is non-vanishing even at the first order in perturbations around a cosmological background. Further we show that such terms modify the formula for the speed of sound of scalar perturbations and even more importantly change the speed of propagation for the gravitational waves. The appearance of the anisotropic stress and the consequent nontrivial speed of propagation of the gravity waves are new phenomena which were not present in the previously studied mimetic models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the effective Newton's gravitational constant in the background Friedmann equations is shifted in the presence of the novel couplings of the mimetic scalar field. We calculate the quadratic action for scalar and tensor perturbations and briefly discuss possible instabilities. Finally we consider the current observational bounds on the model....
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