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Energy Scale of Lorentz Violation in Rainbow Gravity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-11-06 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We modify the standard relativistic dispersion relation in a way which breaks Lorentz symmetry - the effect is predicted in a high-energy regime of some modern theories of quantum gravity. We show that it is possible to realise this scenario within the framework of Rainbow Gravity which introduces two new energy-dependent functions f1(E)f_1(E) and f2(E)f_2(E) into the dispersion relation. Additionally, we assume that the gravitational constant GG and the cosmological constant Λ\Lambda also depend on energy EE and introduce the scaling function h(E)h(E) in order to express this dependence. For cosmological applications we specify the functions f1f_1 and f2f_2 in order to fit massless particles which allows us to derive modified cosmological equations. Finally, by using Hubble+SNIa+BAO(BOSS+Lyman α\alpha)+CMB data, we constrain the energy scale ELVE_{LV} to be at least of the order of 101610^{16} GeV at 1σ1\sigma which is the GUT scale or even higher 101710^{17} GeV at 3σ3\sigma. Our claim is that this energy can be interpreted as the decoupling scale of massless particles from spacetime Lorentz violating effects.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00533,
  title  = {Energy Scale of Lorentz Violation in Rainbow Gravity},
  author = {Nils A. Nilsson and Mariusz P. Dabrowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00533},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Matches version published in Physics of the Dark Universe