Doomsdays in a modified theory of gravity: a classical and a quantum approach

By far cosmology is one of the most exciting subject to study, even more so with the current bulk of observations we have at hand. These observations might indicate different kinds of doomsdays, if dark energy follows certain patterns. Two of these doomsdays are the Little Rip (LR) and Little Siblin...

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Autores: Albarran, Imanol, Bouhmadi López, Mariam, Chen, Che-Yu, Chen, Pisin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/27078
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/27078
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:quantum cosmology
modified theories of gravity
dark energy doomsdays
Palatini type of theories
energy
cosmology
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Sumario:By far cosmology is one of the most exciting subject to study, even more so with the current bulk of observations we have at hand. These observations might indicate different kinds of doomsdays, if dark energy follows certain patterns. Two of these doomsdays are the Little Rip (LR) and Little Sibling of the Big Rip (LSBR). In this work, aside from proving the unavoidability of the LR and LSBR in the Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld (EiBI) scenario, we carry out a quantum analysis of the EiBI theory with a matter field, which, from a classical point of view would inevitably lead to a universe that ends with either LR or LSBR. Based on a modified Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we demonstrate that such fatal endings seems to be avoidable. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.