11–13 May 2026
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Emergent modified gravity: Dynamical dark energy model without additional degrees of freedom

11 May 2026, 18:15
15m
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Particle Cosmology Cosmology

Speaker

Manuel Diaz

Description

Cosmological models of emergent modified gravity allow departures from the dynamics of general relativity in the high and low-curvature regimes without additional degrees of freedom. Consequently, emergent modified gravity is not only able to replace the big bounce singularity with a nonsingular bounce from a purely modified gravity perspective without exotic matter fields, but also to reproduce the late-time expansion rate that is commonly attributed to the effects of a weakening dark energy by the introduction of a modification function of the phase space in the Hamiltonian.

Author

Manuel Diaz

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