Starobinsky inflation and dark energy and dark matter effects from quasicrystal like spacetime structures
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The goal of this work on mathematical cosmology and geometric methods in modified gravity theories, MGTs, is to investigate Starobinsky-like inflation scenarios determined by gravitational and scalar field configurations mimicking quasicrystal, QC, like structures. Such spacetime aperiodic QCs are different from those discovered and studied in solid state physics but described by similar geometric methods. We prove that a inhomogeneous and locally anisotropic gravitational and matter field effective QC mixed continuous and discrete “ether” can be modelled by exact cosmological solutions in MGTs and Einstein gravity. The coefficients of corresponding generic off-diagonal metrics and generalized connections depend (in general) on all spacetime coordinates via generating and integration functions and, certain smooth and discrete parameters. Imposing additional nonholonomic constraints, prescribing symmetries for generating functions and solving the boundary conditions for integration functions and constants, we can model various nontrivial torsion QC structures or extract cosmological Levi-Civita configurations with diagonal metrics reproducing de Sitter (inflationary) like and other type homogeneous inflation and acceleration phases. Finally, we speculate how various dark energy and dark matter effects can be modelled by off-diagonal interactions and deformations of a nontrivial QC like gravitational vacuum structure and analogous scalar matter fields.
- OSTI ID:
- 22848356
- Journal Information:
- Annals of Physics, Vol. 394; Other Information: © 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-4916
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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