Homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in general teleparallel gravity.

Eur Phys J C Part Fields

Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

Published: April 2023

We derive the most general homogeneous and isotropic teleparallel geometries, defined by a metric and a flat, affine connection. We find that there are five branches of connection solutions, which are connected via several limits, and can further be restricted to the torsion-free and metric-compatible cases. We apply our results to several classes of general teleparallel gravity theories and derive their cosmological dynamics for all five branches. Our results show that for large subclasses of these theories the dynamics reduce to that of closely related metric or symmetric teleparallel gravity theories, while for other subclasses up to two new scalar degrees of freedom participate in the cosmological dynamics.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10121523PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11462-6DOI Listing

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