Published January 12, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Scale invariance, unimodular gravity and dark energy

  • 1. Institut de Theorie des Phenomenes Physiques, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)

Description

We demonstrate that the combination of the ideas of unimodular gravity, scale invariance, and the existence of an exactly massless dilaton leads to the evolution of the universe supported by present observations: inflation in the past, followed by the radiation and matter dominated stages and accelerated expansion at present. All mass scales in this type of theories come from one and the same source

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.11.054

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.11.054;
PII
S0370-2693(08)01425-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
671
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 187-192
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.