HYBRID MODIFIED GRAVITY UNIFYING LOCAL TESTS, GALACTIC DYNAMICS AND LATE-TIME COSMIC ACCELERATION
Abstract
The nonequivalence between the metric and Palatini formalisms of f(R) gravity is an intriguing feature of these theories. However, in the recently proposed hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, consisting of the superposition of the metric Einstein–Hilbert Lagrangian with an
term constructed à la Palatini, the "true" gravitational field is described by the interpolation of these two nonequivalent approaches. The theory predicts the existence of a light long-range scalar field, which passes the local constraints and affects the galactic and cosmological dynamics. Thus, the theory opens new possibilities for a unified approach, in the same theoretical framework, to the problems of dark energy and dark matter, without distinguishing a priori matter and geometric sources, but taking their dynamics into account under the same standard.
This essay received an honorable mention in the 2013 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.
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