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A note on Harada's Conformal Killing gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-12-18 v2

Abstract

We show that "Gravity at cosmological distances: Explaining the accelerating expansion without dark energy" recently proposed by J. Harada [6] is equivalent to the Einstein equation extended by the presence of an arbitrary conformal Killing tensor. This turns Harada's equations of third order in the derivatives of the metric tensor to second order, and offers a simple strategy of solution that shortcuts Harada's derivation and obtains both modified Friedmann equations. An application is presented for the case of flat space and constant curvature.

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@article{arxiv.2308.06803,
  title  = {A note on Harada's Conformal Killing gravity},
  author = {Carlo Alberto Mantica and Luca Guido Molinari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.06803},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages. Last section improved, new references and remark 3 added

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