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Structure formation in the new Deser-Woodard nonlocal gravity model

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-12-20 v6 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the structure formation in the nonlocal gravity model proposed recently by Deser and Woodard (DW-2019 model), which can not only reproduce the Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology without fine-tuning puzzle but also may provide a screening mechanism for free. By using the direct numerical method of the reconstructing technique, the nonlocal distortion function f(Y)f(Y) is fixed as f(Y)e2.153(Y16.97)f(Y)\simeq\boldsymbol{e}^{2.153(Y-16.97)} which has a small deviation with the fitted function proposed by Deser and Woodard. Based on the numerical results, we plotted the curve of the growth rate fσ8(z)f\sigma_8(z) under the DW-2019 model, which shows this model is not ruled out by the fσ8f\sigma_8 data from the Redshift-space distortions measurements. The evolving curve of the growth rate has a distinct plummet at z0.39z\simeq0.39, which is a great difference with the DW model. The possible reason is that the DW-2019 model provides the strong nonlocal effect, which behaves as the anisotropic effect to influence the matter perturbation in the low-redshift range. Finally the qualitative analysis of the screening mechanism is discussed by considering the spacial dependence of the nonlocal modification in the small-scale range.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1908.11223,
  title  = {Structure formation in the new Deser-Woodard nonlocal gravity model},
  author = {Jia-Cheng Ding and Jian-Bo Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11223},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

24 pages, 11 figures, 2 table

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