Hořava Gravity in the Effective Field Theory formalism: From cosmology to observational constraints

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• 作者：Noemi Frusciante^a ; ^{fruscian@iap.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Marco Raveri^b ; ^c ; ^d ; ^{mraveri@sissa.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Daniele Vernieri^a ; ^{vernieri@iap.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Bin Hu^e ; ^{hu@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Alessandra Silvestri^e ; ^{silvestri@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Cosmological perturbation theory and observation ; Modified gravity ; Dark energy theory ; Effective field theory
• 刊名：Physics of the Dark Universe
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：13
• 期：Complete
• 页码：7-24
• 全文大小：1193 K

文摘

We consider Hořava gravity within the framework of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy and modified gravity. We work out a complete mapping of the theory into the EFT language for an action including all the operators which are relevant for linear perturbations with up to sixth order spatial derivatives. We then employ an updated version of the EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC package to study the cosmology of the low-energy limit of Hořava gravity and place constraints on its parameters using several cosmological data sets. In particular we use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature–temperature and lensing power spectra by Planck   2013, WMAP low-ℓ$\ell$ polarization spectra, WiggleZ galaxy power spectrum, local Hubble measurements, Supernovae data from SNLS, SDSS and HST and the baryon acoustic oscillations measurements from BOSS, SDSS and 6dFGS. We get improved upper bounds, with respect to those from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, on the deviation of the cosmological gravitational constant from the local Newtonian one. At the level of the background phenomenology, we find a relevant rescaling of the Hubble rate at all epoch, which has a strong impact on the cosmological observables; at the level of perturbations, we discuss in details all the relevant effects on the observables and find that in general the quasi-static approximation is not safe to describe the evolution of perturbations. Overall we find that the effects of the modifications induced by the low-energy Hořava gravity action are quite dramatic and current data place tight bounds on the theory parameters.