English

de Sitter-invariant special relativity and the dark energy problem

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The replacement of the Poincar\'e-invariant Einstein special relativity by a de Sitter-invariant special relativity produces concomitant changes in all relativistic theories, including general relativity. A crucial change in the latter is that both the background de Sitter curvature and the gravitational dynamical curvature turns out to be included in a single curvature tensor. This means that the cosmological term no longer explicitly appears in Einstein equation, and is consequently not restricted to be constant. In this paper, the Newtonian limit of such theory is obtained, and the ensuing Newtonian Friedmann equations are show to provide a good account of the dark energy content of the present-day universe.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02120,
  title  = {de Sitter-invariant special relativity and the dark energy problem},
  author = {A. Araujo and D. F. Lopez and J. G. Pereira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02120},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages. Accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav. V2: a few corrections and small presentation changes

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