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Cosmological signatures of torsion and how to distinguish torsion from the dark sector
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Bolejko, K and Cinus, M and Roukema, BF, Cosmological signatures of torsion and how to distinguish torsion from the dark sector, Physical Review D, 101, (10) Article 104046. ISSN 2470-0010 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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© 2020 American Physical Society
DOI: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.104046
Abstract
Torsion is a non-Riemannian geometrical extension of general relativity that allows including the spin of matter and the twisting of spacetime. Cosmological models with torsion have been considered in the literature to solve problems of either the very early (high redshift 𝓏) or the present-day Universe. This paper focuses on distinguishable observational signatures of torsion that could not be otherwise explained with a scalar field in pseudo-Riemannian geometry. We show that when torsion is present, the cosmic duality relation between the angular diameter distance, DA, and the luminosity distance, DL, is broken. We show how the deviation described by the parameter η = DL/[DA(1 + 𝓏)2] - 1 is linked to torsion and how different forms of torsion lead to special-case parametrizations of η, including η0𝓏, η0𝓏/(1 + 𝓏), and η0ln(1 + 𝓏). We also show that the effects of torsion could be visible in low-redshift data, inducing biases in supernovae-based H0 measurements. We also show that torsion can impact the Clarkson-Bassett-Lu (CBL) function C(𝓏) = 1 + H2(DD" - D'2) + HH′DD′, where D is the transverse comoving distance. If D is inferred from the luminosity distance, then, in general, nonzero torsion models, C(𝓏) ≠ 0. For pseudo-Riemannian geometry, the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric has C(𝓏) ≡ 0; thus, the measurement of the Clarkson-Bassett-Lu function could provide another diagnostic of torsion.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Astronomical sciences |
| Research Field: | Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Bolejko, K (Dr Krzysztof Bolejko) |
| ID Code: | 145565 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (FT140101270) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 4 |
| Deposited By: | Physics |
| Deposited On: | 2021-07-27 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-09-02 |
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