{"title":"Timelike Geodesic Congruence in the Simplest Solutions of General Relativity with Quantum-Improved Metric Tensor","authors":"A. Nasser Tawfik, T. F. Dabash","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500979","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shadows and photon rings of a spherically accreting Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole","authors":"Mohaddese Heydari-Fard, Malihe Heydari-Fard, Nematollah Riazi","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500888","url":null,"abstract":"By considering Kehagias–Sfetsos black hole in the framework of the Hořava–Lifshitz gravity, we study the optical appearance of such black holes surrounded by spherical accretion flow. For the static/infalling spherical accretion flow, we compute the observed specific intensity as a function of impact parameter. We also investigate the effect of the Hořava parameter and accreting matter on the luminosity of shadows and photon rings. It is found that an increase in the Hořava parameter decreases the shadow size, while the shadows and photon rings luminosities increase. Moreover, we constrain the Hořava parameter from the observational data reported by the Event Horizon Telescope for M87* and Sgr A*.","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135824011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability investigations of isotropic and anisotropic exponential inflation in the Starobinsky-Bel-Robinson gravity","authors":"Tuan Q. Do, Duy H. Nguyen, Tuyen M. Pham","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500876","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we would like to examine whether a novel Starobinsky–Bel–Robinson (SBR) gravity model admits stable exponential inflationary solutions with or without spatial anisotropies. As a result, we are able to derive an exact de Sitter inflationary to this SBR model. Furthermore, we observe that an exact Bianchi type I inflationary solution does not exist in the SBR model. However, we find that a modified SBR model, in which the sign of coefficient of [Formula: see text] term is flipped from positive to negative, can admit the corresponding Bianchi type I inflationary solution. Unfortunately, stability analysis using the dynamical system approach indicates that both of these inflationary solutions turn out to be unstable. Interestingly, we show that a stable de Sitter inflationary solution can be obtained in the modified SBR gravity.","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vitaly A. Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Danila O. Sopin
{"title":"Balancing multiple charge particle excess with baryon asymmetry","authors":"Vitaly A. Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Danila O. Sopin","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823400059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823400059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drake equation of search for extraterrestrial intelligence: a proposal for modification in the light of Dirac's large number hypothesis","authors":"Saibal Ray, Soham Ray, Issa Al-Amri, S.K. Maurya, K.P. Manith Banula","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is it time to rethink quantum gravity?","authors":"Jonathan Oppenheim","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823420245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823420245","url":null,"abstract":"Although it's widely believed that gravity should have a quantum nature like every other force, the conceptual obstacles to constructing a quantum theory of gravity compel us to explore other perspectives. Gravity is not like any other force. It alone defines a universal space-time geometry, upon which quantum fields evolve. We feel gravity because matter causes space-time to bend. Time flows at unequal rates at different locations. The rate at which time flows, and the causal structure it provides, may be required to have a classical description in order for quantum theory to be well-formulated. I discuss arguments for this proposition, but ultimately conclude that we must turn to experiment to guide us.","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normalization of the vacuum and the ultraviolet completion of Einstein gravity","authors":"Philip D. Mannheim","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500967","url":null,"abstract":"Second-order-derivative plus fourth-order-derivative gravity is the ultraviolet completion of second-order-derivative quantum Einstein gravity. While it achieves renormalizability through states of negative Dirac norm, the unitarity violation that this would entail can be postponed to Planck energies. As we show in this paper the theory has a different problem, one that occurs at all energy scales, namely that the Dirac norm of the vacuum of the theory is not finite. To establish this we present a procedure for determining the norm of the vacuum in any quantum field theory. With the Dirac norm of the vacuum of the second-order-derivative plus fourth-order-derivative theory not being finite, the Feynman rules that are used to establish renormalizability are not valid, as is the assumption that the theory can be used as an effective theory at energies well below the Planck scale. This lack of finiteness is also manifested in the fact that the Minkowski path integral for the theory is divergent. Because the vacuum Dirac norm is not finite, the Hamiltonian of the theory is not Hermitian. However, it turns out to be $PT$ symmetric. And when one continues the theory into the complex plane and uses the $PT$ symmetry inner product, viz. the overlap of the left-eigenstate of the Hamiltonian with its right-eigenstate, one then finds that for the vacuum this norm is both finite and positive, the Feynman rules now are valid, the Minkowski path integral now is well behaved, and the theory now can serve as a low energy effective theory. Consequently, the theory can now be offered as a fully consistent, unitary and renormalizable theory of quantum gravity.","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreword","authors":"Dharam Vir Ahluwalia","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823020017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823020017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45113124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A viable <i>f</i>(<i>R</i>) gravity model without oscillations in the effective dark energy","authors":"A. Oliveros","doi":"10.1142/s0218271823500864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271823500864","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we propose a reparametrization of a specific viable [Formula: see text] gravity model to represent it as a perturbation of the [Formula: see text]CDM model. The [Formula: see text] gravity model under consideration includes two parameters, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], which control how close the proposed model can be to [Formula: see text]CDM, allowing for arbitrary proximity. Furthermore, it is shown that the Hu–Sawicki (HS) model is a limiting case of this reparametrized model. Following the existing literature, we also derive an analytical approximation for the expansion rate [Formula: see text], which shows an excellent agreement between this analytical approximation and the numerical solution over a wide range of redshifts for realistic values of the deviation parameter [Formula: see text]. By appropriately selecting values for the model parameters, we plot the cosmological parameters [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], as well as the statefinder quantities [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. We find that their present values (at [Formula: see text]) are consistent with the observations from Planck 2018 and the values predicted by the [Formula: see text]CDM model. It is important to note that the examined cosmological and statefinder parameters do not exhibit significant oscillations of effective dark energy, which could lead to singular and unphysical solutions at high redshifts. This anomalous behavior has been avoided here by utilizing the approximate analytical solution for [Formula: see text]. Additionally, we conduct a detailed analysis of the evolution of matter density perturbations within the introduced [Formula: see text] gravity model. The results demonstrate that this viable [Formula: see text] gravity model is practically indistinguishable from the [Formula: see text]CDM model at the background level.","PeriodicalId":50307,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Physics D","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135349451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}