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Conformal symmetry and accelerating cosmology in teleparallel gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-11-19 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss conformal issues of pure and extended teleparallel gravity. In particular, we present formulations of conformal transformation in teleparallel gravity. Furthermore, we propose conformal scalar and gauge field theories in teleparallel gravity and study conformal torsion gravity. We explicitly demonstrate that a power-law acceleration (including the Λ\LambdaCDM universe) as well as the de Sitter expansion of the universe can be realized in extended teleparallel gravity with a conformal scalar field, and that pure teleparallel gravity with a conformal scalar field can lead to the Λ\LambdaCDM model. It is also shown that there can exist the de Sitter solution in conformal torsion gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1308.5789,
  title  = {Conformal symmetry and accelerating cosmology in teleparallel gravity},
  author = {Kazuharu Bamba and Sergei D. Odintsov and Diego Sáez-Gómez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5789},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

13 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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