Stability of cosmological solutions in F(R) Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

Diego Sáez-Gómez
Phys. Rev. D 83, 064040 – Published 29 March 2011

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the analysis of cosmological solutions and its stability in the frame of F(R) Hořava-Lifshitz gravity. The perturbations around general spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker solutions are analyzed and it is shown that the stability of those solutions depends on the type of theory, i.e. on the form of the action F(R), as well as on the extra parameters contained in every Hořava-Lifshitz theory (due to the breaking of Lorentz invariance). The (in)stability of cosmological solutions can provide a constraint of the models and it may give new observational predictions. A natural explanation of the end of inflation and radiation/matter phases can be provided by this class of theories. An explicit example of F(R) gravity is studied, and the transition between the different epochs of the Universe history is achieved.

  • Received 4 November 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.064040

© 2011 American Physical Society

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Diego Sáez-Gómez

  • Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (ICE-CSIC/IEEC), Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciencies, Torre C5-Par-2a pl, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

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Vol. 83, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2011

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