Aspects of Horava-Lifshitz cosmology
Abstract
We review some general aspects of Horava-Lifshitz cosmology. Formulating it in its basic version, we extract the cosmological equations and we use observational data in order to constrain the parameters of the theory. Through a phase-space analysis we extract the late-time stable solutions, and we show that eternal expansion, and bouncing and cyclic behavior can arise naturally. Concerning the effective dark energy sector we show that it can describe the phantom phase without the use of a phantom field. However, performing a detailed perturbation analysis, we see that Horava-Lifshitz gravity in its basic version suffers from instabilities. Therefore, suitable generalizations are required in order for this novel theory to be a candidate for the description of nature.
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@article{arxiv.1101.0300,
title = {Aspects of Horava-Lifshitz cosmology},
author = {Emmanuel N. Saridakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0300},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, invited talk given at the 2nd International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Matter-Antimatter Assymetry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 5-6, 2010