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Dark matter in ghost-free bigravity theory: From a galaxy scale to the universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-01-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the origin of dark matter based on the ghost-free bigravity theory with twin matter fluids. The present cosmic acceleration can be explained by the existence of graviton mass, while dark matter is required in several cosmological situations [the galactic missing mass, the cosmic structure formation and the standard big-bang scenario (the cosmological nucleosynthesis vs the CMB observation)]. Assuming that the Compton wavelength of the massive graviton is shorter than a galactic scale, we show the bigravity theory can explain dark matter by twin matter fluid as well as the cosmic acceleration by tuning appropriate coupling constants.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0202,
  title  = {Dark matter in ghost-free bigravity theory: From a galaxy scale to the universe},
  author = {Katsuki Aoki and Kei-ichi Maeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0202},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, references added