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Purely kinetic coupled gravity
- Title
- Purely kinetic coupled gravity
- Authors
- Gubitosi G.; Linder E.V.
- Ewha Authors
- Eric V. Linder
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- Citation
- Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 703, no. 2, pp. 113 - 118
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Cosmic acceleration can be achieved not only with a sufficiently flat scalar field potential but through kinetic terms coupled to gravity. These derivative couplings impose a shift symmetry on the scalar field, aiding naturalness. We write the most general purely kinetic action not exceeding mass dimension 6 and obeying second order field equations. The result reduces to a simple form involving a coupling of the Einstein tensor with the kinetic term and can be interpreted as adding a new term to Galileon gravity in curved spacetime. We examine the cosmological implications of the effective dark energy and classify the dynamical attractor solutions, finding a quasistable loitering phase mimicking late time acceleration by a cosmological constant. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.066
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- 자연과학대학 > 물리학전공 > Journal papers
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