English

Cosmology with moving bimetric fluids

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-12-21 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study cosmological implications of bigravity and massive gravity solutions with non-simultaneously diagonal metrics by considering the generalized Gordon and Kerr-Schild ansatzes. The scenario that we obtain is equivalent to that of General Relativity with additional non-comoving perfect fluids. We show that the most general ghost-free bimetric theory generates three kinds of effective fluids whose equations of state are fixed by a function of the ansatz. Different choices of such function allow to reproduce the behaviour of different dark fluids. In particular, the Gordon ansatz is suitable for the description of various kinds of slowly-moving fluids, whereas the Kerr-Schild one is shown to describe a null dark energy component. The motion of those dark fluids with respect to the CMB is shown to generate, in turn, a relative motion of baryonic matter with respect to radition which contributes to the CMB anisotropies. CMB dipole observations are able to set stringent limits on the dark sector described by the effective bimetric fluid.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.06493,
  title  = {Cosmology with moving bimetric fluids},
  author = {Carlos García-García and Antonio L. Maroto and Prado Martín-Moruno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06493},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

V1: 26 pages, 20 figures. V2: 28 pages, 5 new references added, some minor clarifications added. This version accepted for publication in JCAP

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