Viable cosmological solutions in massive bimetric gravity

• Verfasst von: Könnig, Frank [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Patil, Aashay [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Amendola, Luca [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Viable cosmological solutions in massive bimetric gravity
• Verf.angabe: Frank Könnig, Aashay Patil, Luca Amendola
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 10.11.2017
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: De.arxiv.org
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2014) Artikel-Nummer 1312.3208, 15 Seiten
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1565232402

Abstract

We find the general conditions for viable cosmological solution at the background level in bigravity models. Furthermore, we constrain the parameters by comparing to the Union 2.1 supernovae catalog and identify, in some cases analytically, the best fit parameter or the degeneracy curve among pairs of parameters. We point out that a bimetric model with a single free parameter predicts a simple relation between the equation of state and the density parameter, fits well the supernovae data and is a valid and testable alternative to $\Lambda$CDM. Additionally, we identify the conditions for a phantom behavior and show that viable bimetric cosmologies cannot cross the phantom divide.