Monday, August 13, 2012

1208.2146 (Inyong Cho et al.)

Universe Driven by Perfect Fluid in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld
Gravity
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Inyong Cho, Hyeong-Chan Kim, Taeyoon Moon
We investigate the evolution of the Universe filled with barotropic perfect fluid in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. We consider both the isotropic and the anisotropic universe. At the early stage when the energy density is high, the evolution is modified considerably compared with that in general relativity. For the equation-of-state parameter $w>0$, the initial singularity is not accompanied as it was discovered for radiation in earlier work. More interestingly, for pressureless dust ($w=0$), the initial state approaches a de Sitter state. This fact opens a new possibility of singularity-free nature of the theory. The anisotropy is mild, and does not develop curvature singularities in spacetime contrary to general relativity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2146

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