Off-diagonal ekpyrotic scenarios and equivalence of modified, massive and/or Einstein gravity

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• 作者：Sergiu I. Vacaru^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ¹ ; ^{sergiu.vacaru@uaic.ro" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{sergiu.vacaru@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Massive gravity ; Modified gravity ; Off-diagonal cosmological solutions ; Ekpyrotic and little rip universe
• 刊名：Physics Letters B
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：10 January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：752
• 期：Complete
• 页码：27-33
• 全文大小：357 K

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Using our anholonomic frame deformation method, we show how generic off-diagonal cosmological solutions depending, in general, on all spacetime coordinates and undergoing a phase of ultra-slow contraction can be constructed in massive gravity. In this paper, there are found and studied new classes of locally anisotropic and (in)homogeneous cosmological metrics with open and closed spatial geometries. The late time acceleration is present due to effective cosmological terms induced by nonlinear off-diagonal interactions and graviton mass. The off-diagonal cosmological metrics and related Stückelberg fields are constructed in explicit form up to nonholonomic frame transforms of the Friedmann–Lamaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) coordinates. We show that the solutions include matter, graviton mass and other effective sources modeling nonlinear gravitational and matter fields interactions in modified and/or massive gravity, with polarization of physical constants and deformations of metrics, which may explain certain dark energy and dark matter effects. There are stated and analyzed the conditions when such configurations mimic interesting solutions in general relativity and modifications and recast the general Painlevé–Gullstrand and FLRW metrics. Finally, we elaborate on a reconstruction procedure for a subclass of off-diagonal cosmological solutions which describe cyclic and ekpyrotic universes, with an emphasis on open issues and observable signatures.