English

Thermodynamics and cosmological reconstruction in $f(T,B)$ gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-12-19 v2

Abstract

Recently, it was formulated a teleparallel theory called f(T,B)f(T,B) gravity which connects both f(T)f(T) and f(R)f(R) under suitable limits. In this theory, the function in the action is assumed to depend on the torsion scalar TT and also on a boundary term related with the divergence of torsion, B=2μTμB=2\nabla_{\mu}T^{\mu}. In this work, we study different features of a flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology in this theory. First, we show that the FLRW equations can be transformed to the form of Clausius relation T^hSeff=dE+WdV\hat{T}_hS_{\rm eff}=-dE+WdV, where T^h\hat{T}_h is the horizon temperature and SeffS_{\rm eff} is the entropy which contains contributions both from horizon entropy and an additional entropy term introduced due to the non-equilibrium. We also formulate the constraint for the validity of the generalised second law of thermodynamics (GSLT). Additionally, using a cosmological reconstruction technique, we show that both f(T,B)f(T,B) and T+F(B)-T+F(B) gravity can mimic power-law, de-Sitter and Λ\LambdaCDM models. Finally, we formulate the perturbed evolution equations and analyse the stability of some important cosmological solutions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.08373,
  title  = {Thermodynamics and cosmological reconstruction in $f(T,B)$ gravity},
  author = {Sebastian Bahamonde and M. Zubair and G. Abbas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08373},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe. Some notations and definitions have been changed but the conclusions are the same