Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad3163
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, I. Lobo, Giovanni Palmisano
There has been strong interest in the possibility that in the quantum-gravity realm momentum space might be curved, mainly focusing, especially for what concerns phenomenological implications, on the case of a de Sitter momentum space. We here take as starting point the known fact that quantum gravity coupled to matter in $2+1$ spacetime dimensions gives rise to an effective picture characterized by a momentum space with anti-de Sitter geometry, and we point out some key properties of $2+1$-dimensional anti-de Sitter momentum space. We observe that it is impossible to implement all of these properties in theories with a $3+1$-dimensional anti-de Sitter momentum space, and we then investigate, with the aim of providing guidance to the relevant phenomenology focusing on possible modified laws of conservation of momenta, the implications of giving up, in the $3+1$-dimensional case, some of the properties of the $2+1$-dimensional case.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad3082
Vishnu A Pai, Titus K. Mathew
Numerous studies have tried to explain the observed late acceleration of the Universe as being caused by the bulk viscosity associated with the dark matter component. However, for driving the said accelerated expansion, all such models require a violation of Near Equilibrium Conditions (NEC) associated with the background viscous theory. But recently, it was found that, with the aid of a cosmological constant, it is possible to maintain NEC for the bulk viscous warm dark matter during certain evolutionary epochs of the Universe. Nevertheless, this negated the possibility of having a ‘solely’ viscous-driven late acceleration in Einstein gravity within the NEC limit. In the present study, we investigate a model of the universe composed of mixed dark matter components, with viscous dark matter (vDM), and inviscid cold dark matter (CDM) as its constituents, in the context of R + 2λTvm gravity, and show that the model predicts late acceleration by satisfying NEC, critical energy condition (CEC) and second law of thermodynamics (SLT) throughout the evolution, even in the absence of a cosmological constant. One intriguing feature observed in this model is the possibility of having a negative bulk viscous coefficient and yet satisfying the second law of thermodynamics. Finally, by applying both theoretical and observational constraints on the model parameters, we determined the best-fit values of model parameters and thereby analyzed the evolutionary behavior of some relevant cosmological observables.
许多研究都试图将观测到的宇宙晚期加速现象解释为是由与暗物质成分相关的体积粘性引起的。然而,要驱动上述加速膨胀,所有这些模型都需要违反与背景粘性理论相关的 "近平衡条件"(NEC)。但最近发现,在宇宙常数的帮助下,在宇宙的某些演化纪元中,大体积粘性暖暗物质有可能保持近平衡条件(NEC)。然而,这否定了在 NEC 极限内爱因斯坦引力 "纯粹 "由粘性驱动的后期加速的可能性。在本研究中,我们以 R + 2λTvm 引力为背景,研究了一个由混合暗物质组成的宇宙模型,其成分包括粘性暗物质(vDM)和不粘性冷暗物质(CDM),结果表明,即使在没有宇宙学常数的情况下,该模型也能通过满足 NEC、临界能量条件(CEC)和热力学第二定律(SLT)来预测整个演化过程中的晚期加速。在该模型中观察到的一个引人入胜的特征是,在满足热力学第二定律的情况下,存在负的体积粘性系数的可能性。最后,通过对模型参数施加理论和观测约束,我们确定了模型参数的最佳拟合值,从而分析了一些相关宇宙学观测指标的演化行为。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad3083
Richard Michael Jones
{Arbitrary initial conditions allow solutions of Einstein's field equations for General Relativity to have arbitrarily large relative rotation of matter and inertial frames. The ``Rotation Problem'' is to explain why the measured relative rotation rate is so small. As it turns out, nearly any reasonable theory of quantum gravity can solve the rotation problem by phase interference.} Even as early as {}{about a quarter of a second after the initial simgularity, quantum cosmology would limit the cosmologies that contribute significantly to a path integral calculation to have relative rms rotation rates less than about} {{}}{$10^{-51}$ radians per year.} Those calculations are based on using 50 e-foldings during inflation. For 55 or 60 e-foldings, the cosmologies contributing significantly to the path integral would have even smaller relative rotation rates. In addition, although inflation dominates the calculation, even if there had been no inflation, the cosmologies contributing significantly to the path integral would have relative rotation rates less than about {}{$10^{-32}$ radians per year at about a quarter of a second after the initial singularity.} These calculations are insensitive to the details of the theory of quantum gravity because the main factor depends only on the size of the visible universe, the Planck time, the free-space speed of light, the Hubble parameter, and the number of e-foldings during inflation. These calculations use the Einstein-Hilbert action in quantum gravity, {{}}{including} large-scale relative rotation of inertial frames and the matter distribution, in which each ``path'' is a cosmology with a different rms relative rotation rate. The calculations include inflation for 50, 55, and 60 e-foldings, and for values of the dependence of relative rotation rate on cosmological scale factor $a$ as $a^{-m}$ for various values of $m$. The calculation shows that the action is an extremum at zero rms relative rotation rate.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad29e8
Gerald Bergmann, Carolin Cordes, Christoph Gentemann, V. Händchen, Qinglan Wang, Hao Yan, K. Danzmann, G. Heinzel, Moritz Mehmet
Torsion balances (TBs) are versatile instruments known for their ability to measure tiny forces and accelerations with high precision. We are currently commissioning a new TB facility to support the development and testing of novel optical inertial sensor units for future gravity-related space missions. Here, we report on the status of our apparatus and present first sensitivity curves that demonstrate acceleration and torque sensitivities of