The Cosmology of Ricci-Tensor-Squared Gravity in the Palatini Variational Approach

Details The Cosmology of Ricci-Tensor-Squared Gravity in the Palatini Variational Approach The Cosmology of Ricci-Tensor-Squared Gravity in the Palatini Variational Approach

2007-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/0707.2664v3

Phys.Rev.D76:104047,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, 2 figures; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.104047

We consider the cosmology of the Ricci-tensor-squared gravity in the Palatini variational approach. The gravitational action of standard general relativity is modified by adding a function f(R^abR_ab) to the Einstein-Hilbert action, and the Palatini variation is used to derive the field equations. A general method of obtaining the background and first-order covariant and gauge-invariant perturbation equations is outlined. As an example, we consider the cosmological constraints on such theories arising from the supernova type Ia and cosmic microwave background observations. We find that the best fit to the data is a non-null leading-order correction to Einstein gravity, but the current data exhibit no significant preference over the concordance model. The growth of non-relativistic matter density perturbations at late times is also analyzed, and we find that a scale-dependent (positive or negative) sound-speed-squared term generally appears in the growth equation for small-scale density perturbations. We also estimate the observational bound imposed by the matter power spectrum for the model with f(R^abR_ab) = alpha(R^abR_ab)^beta to be roughly |\beta| \lesssim O(10^{-5}) so long as the dark matter does not possess compensating anisotropic stresses.

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