Dark Energy as a Born-Infeld Gauge Interaction Violating the Equivalence Principle

2006/04/30 by A. Fuzfa, A. Füzfa, Jean‐Michel Alimi +1 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.97.061301

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 97 (2006) 061301 · 5 pages, 3 figures, sequel of Phys. Rev. D 73 023520 (2006), to appear in Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We investigate the possibility that dark energy does not couple to gravitation in the same way as ordinary matter, yielding a violation of the weak and strong equivalence principles on cosmological scales. We build a transient mechanism in which gravitation is pushed away from general relativity by a Born-Infeld gauge interaction acting as an abnormally weighting (dark) energy. This mechanism accounts for the Hubble diagram of far-away supernovae by cosmic acceleration and time variation of the gravitational constant while accounting naturally for the present tests on general relativity.

Citations

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (in "The Review of Particle Properties" 2004)

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