Abstract
We consider \(f\left( {R,T} \right) \) modified theory of gravity in which, in general, the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy–momentum tensor. We indicate that in this type of the theory, the coupling energy–momentum tensor is not conserved. However, we mainly focus on a particular model that matter is minimally coupled to the geometry in the metric formalism and wherein, its coupling energy–momentum tensor is also conserved. We obtain the corresponding Raychaudhuri dynamical equation that presents the evolution of the kinematic quantities. Then for the chosen model, we derive the behavior of the deceleration parameter, and show that the coupling term can lead to an acceleration phase after the matter dominated phase. On the other hand, the curvature of the universe corresponds with the deviation from parallelism in the geodesic motion. Thus, we also scrutinize the motion of the free test particles on their geodesics, and derive the geodesic deviation equation in this modified theory to study the accelerating universe within the spatially flat FLRW background. Actually, this equation gives the relative accelerations of adjacent particles as a measurable physical quantity, and provides an elegant tool to investigate the timelike and the null structures of spacetime geometries. Then, through the null deviation vector, we find the observer area–distance as a function of the redshift for the chosen model, and compare the results with the corresponding results obtained in the literature.
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One already knows that the trace of the radiation energy–momentum tensor is zero.
Obviously, \(\alpha =0 \) reminds the general relativity, and in the model, the \(\alpha \ne 0\) case corresponds to \(f_T \ne 0 \).
Note that, the focusing of geodesics can also be described by geometrical terms using the Raychaudhuri equation, in particular, it only depends on the deceleration parameter and the physical velocity of the geodesics, see Ref. [77]. Indeed, expressions like relation (56) are known as energy conditions and, as the Weyl tensor is zero for the FLRW metrics, can be derived using the Raychaudhuri equation instead of the GDE, see, e.g. for modified gravity, Refs. [78, 79].
It has been claimed [72] that the Hu–Sawicki models of f(R) theories (i.e., \(f(R) = aR - {m^2}{b{\left( {R/{m^2}} \right) ^n}/\left[ 1 + c{\left( {R/{m^2}} \right) ^n} \right] }\), where a, b and c are dimensionless constants and \({m^2}\) is related to the square of the Hubble parameter) supply a viable cosmological evolution, while these models have been studied in the range of astrophysical and cosmological situations.
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From the definition of the interaction/coupling energy–momentum tensor, Eq. (7), one has
wherein using the definition of Einstein tensor, it reads
As for any scalar and vector fields, one has \({\nabla _\mu }{\nabla _\nu }\varphi ={\nabla _\nu }{\nabla _\mu }\varphi \) and
thus, one gets
Also, by
and
one attains
Knowing \({\nabla _\mu }{g_{\alpha \beta }} = 0 \), and substituting relations (78) and (81) into relation (76), leads to
wherein, with relation (8), it poses some restrictions on the choice of the function of f(R, T) on T as
Note that, such restrictions not only do not contradict with the diffeomorphism invariance of the action (1), but they also arise out of it. That is, the price for a priori inclusion of the trace of the energy–momentum tensor [that itself will emerge from the variation of the Lagrangian of the matter, definition (2)] is to have these restrictions as self-consistency.
Now, writing the result for the index \(\nu =0 \) of the comoving FLRW metrics, it yields
and by substituting \(T_{00}^{[m]} = {\rho ^{[m]}}\) and \({\dot{T}} = - {\dot{\rho } ^{[m]}} = 3H{\rho ^{[m]}} \), one achieves the constraint Eq. (10).
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Zaregonbadi, R., Farhoudi, M. Cosmic acceleration from matter–curvature coupling. Gen Relativ Gravit 48, 142 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-016-2137-z
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