Palatini formulation of the conformally invariant $$f\left( R,L_m\right) $$ f R , L m gravity theory

Autor: Tiberiu Harko, Shahab Shahidi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol 82, Iss 11, Pp 1-18 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1434-6052
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10891-z
Popis: Abstract We investigate the field equations of the conformally invariant models of gravity with curvature-matter coupling, constructed in Weyl geometry, using the Palatini formalism. We consider the case in which the Lagrangian is given by the sum of the square of the Weyl scalar, the strength of the field associated to the Weyl vector, and a conformally invariant geometry-matter coupling term, constructed from the matter Lagrangian and the Weyl scalar. After substituting the Weyl scalar in terms of its Riemannian counterpart, the quadratic action is defined in Riemann geometry and involves a nonminimal coupling between the Ricci scalar and the matter Lagrangian. For the sake of generality, a more general Lagrangian, in which the Weyl vector is nonminimally coupled with an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar, is also considered. By varying the action independently with respect to the metric and the connection, the independent connection can be expressed as the Levi-Civita connection of an auxiliary Ricci scalar- and Weyl vector-dependent metric, which is related to the physical metric by means of a conformal transformation. The field equations are obtained in both the metric and the Palatini formulations. The cosmological implications of the Palatini field equations are investigated for three distinct models corresponding to different forms of the coupling functions. A comparison with the standard $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM model is also performed, and we find that the Palatini type cosmological models can give an acceptable description of the observations.
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