Non-linear bigravity and cosmic acceleration

Details Non-linear bigravity and cosmic acceleration Non-linear bigravity and cosmic acceleration

2002-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206044v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 104025

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

55 pages, 4 figures, references and comments added, final version published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.104025

We explore the cosmological solutions of classes of non-linear bigravity theories. These theories are defined by effective four-dimensional Lagrangians describing the coupled dynamics of two metric tensors, and containing, in the linearized limit, both a massless graviton and an ultralight one. We focus on two paradigmatic cases: the case where the coupling between the two metrics is given by a Pauli-Fierz-type mass potential, and the case where this coupling derives from five-dimensional brane constructions. We find that cosmological evolutions in bigravity theories can be described in terms of the dynamics of two ``relativistic particles'', moving in a curved Lorenzian space, and connected by some type of nonlinear ``spring''. Classes of bigravity cosmological evolutions exhibit a ``locking'' mechanism under which the two metrics ultimately stabilize in a bi-de-Sitter configuration, with relative (constant) expansion rates. In the absence of matter, we find that a generic feature of bigravity cosmologies is to exhibit a period of cosmic acceleration. This leads us to propose bigravity as a source of a new type of dark energy (``tensor quintessence''), exhibiting specific anisotropic features. Bigravity could also have been the source of primordial inflation.

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