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Accelerating Universe in Hybrid and Logarithmic Teleparallel Gravity

General Physics 2022-07-20 v1

Abstract

Teleparallel gravity is a modified theory of gravity for which the Ricci scalar RR of the underlying geometry in the action is replaced by an arbitrary functional form of torsion scalar TT. In doing so, cosmology in % f(T) gravity becomes greatly simplified owing to the fact that TT contains only the first derivatives of the vierbeins. The article exploits this appealing nature of f(T)f(T) gravity and present cosmological scenarios from hybrid and logarithmic teleparallel gravity models of the form % f=e^{mT}T^n and f=Dlog(bT)f=D\log(bT) respectively, where mm, nn, DD and bb are free parameters constrained to suffice the late time acceleration. We employ a well motivated parametrization of the deceleration parameter having just one degree of freedom constrained with a χ2\chi^{2} test from 57 data points of Hubble data set in the redshift range 0.07<z<2.360.07<z<2.36, to obtain the expressions of pressure, density and EoS parameter for both the teleparallel gravity models and study their temporal evolution. We find the deceleration parameter to experience a signature flipping for the χ2\chi^{2} value of the free parameter at ztr0.6z_{tr}\simeq0.6 which is consistent with latest Planck measurements. Next, we present few geometric diagnostics of this parametrization to understand the nature of dark energy and its deviation from the Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology. Finally, we study the energy conditions to check the consistency of the parameter spaces for both the teleparallel gravity models. We find the SEC to violate for both the models which is an essential recipe to obtain an accelerating universe.

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@article{arxiv.2004.08211,
  title  = {Accelerating Universe in Hybrid and Logarithmic Teleparallel Gravity},
  author = {Sanjay Mandal and Snehasish Bhattacharjee and S. K. J. Pacif and P. K. Sahoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08211},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted version at Physics of the Dark Universe

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