Cosmological constraints on a classical limit of quantum gravity

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2005-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506392v1

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 043504

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX 4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.043504

We investigate the cosmology of a recently proposed deformation of Einstein gravity, emerging from quantum gravity heuristics. The theory is constructed to have de Sitter space as a vacuum solution, and thus to be relevant to the accelerating universe. However, this solution turns out to be unstable, and the true phase space of cosmological solutions is significantly more complex, displaying two late-time power-law attractors -- one accelerating and the other dramatically decelerating. It is also shown that non-accelerating cosmologies sit on a separatrix between the two basins of attraction of these attractors. Hence it is impossible to pass from a decelerating cosmology to an accelerating one, as required in standard cosmology for consistency with nucleosynthesis and structure formation and compatibility with the data inferred from supernovae Ia. We point out that alternative models of the early universe, such as the one investigated here might provide possible ways to circumvent these requirements.

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