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Exploring fundamental variables of gravity through early universe observations

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K14468
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 15010:Theoretical studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Aoki Katsuki  京都大学, 基礎物理学研究所, 特定助教 (80822288)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords重力理論 / 宇宙論 / 量子重力理論
Outline of Research at the Start

一般相対論は量子論と整合的でなく、その背後には量子重力理論と呼ばれるより基礎的な理論が隠れていると考えられている。本課題では高エネルギー領域においては重力場が曲率だけでなく捩率によっても記述されていると仮定し、捩率の(非)存在の兆候を初期宇宙観測から明らかにすることを目的とする。具体的には捩率は重力理論における新たな重い粒子として解釈できることを用いて、インフレーション宇宙の観測量等を具体的に評価する。重力理論における重い新粒子の痕跡が見つかれば量子重力理論およびそこから得られる有効理論の更なる理解へ向けた重要な一歩を与えることができる。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We showed that spin-0, 1, and 2 degrees of freedom can consistently arise from gravitational theories with torsion. We proposed inflationary scenario and constructed a general framework for cosmological perturbations in such theories. To systematically understand observational signatures from modifications of gravity, we formulated effective field theories for cosmology and black holes. In addition, we studied unitarity and analyticity of S-matrix to investigate the theoretical consistency of gravitational theories. In particular, we found that the consistency between general relativity and the standard model of particle physics naturally predicts the unification of fundamental forces.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

一般相対論と量子論の不整合性やダークエネルギー、ダークマター、インフレーションといった宇宙論に残された数々の謎の存在は一般相対論を超えた重力理論の必要性を示唆している。本研究で提案した有効場理論はこれら重力理論を系統的に調査していくための土台を与え、今後重力理論を検証していく上で有用であると期待される。一方で、有効場理論の理論空間の全ての領域がユニタリー性などの物理原理と整合的ではない。重力理論とS行列との整合性を明らかにすることは理論の妥当性を明らかにするだけでなく、究極の物理法則と期待される量子重力理論の理解を得ることにも繋がる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (62 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (7 results) Journal Article (24 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Peer Reviewed: 24 results,  Open Access: 19 results) Presentation (26 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 13 results,  Invited: 15 results) Remarks (3 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] エディンバラ大学(英国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 国立台湾大学(台湾)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] バルセロナ大学(スペイン)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Universidade de Lisboa(ポルトガル)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Universidad de Salamanca(スペイン)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ケンブリッジ大学(英国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Universite de Paris(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Effective field theory of black hole perturbations in vector-tensor gravity2024

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mukohyama Shinji、Takahashi Kazufumi、Yingcharoenrat Vicharit
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2024 Issue: 03 Pages: 012-012

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2024/03/012

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Exploring the spin of ultralight dark matter with gravitational wave detectors2024

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke Manita、Hiroki Takeda、Katsuki Aoki、Tomohiro Fujita、Shinji Mukohyama
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cosmological perturbation theory in metric-affine gravity2024

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki、Sebastian Bahamonde、Jorge Gigante Valcarcel、Mohammad Ali Gorji
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Coupled vector Gauss-Bonnet theories and hairy black holes2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Shinji Tsujikawa
    • Journal Title

      Physics Letters B

      Volume: 843, 138022 Pages: 1-13

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138022

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Spin-2 dark matter from anisotropic Universe in bigravity2023

    • Author(s)
      Manita Yusuke、Aoki Katsuki、Fujita Tomohiro、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Unitarity and unstable-particle scattering amplitudes2023

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 107 Issue: 6

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.107.065017

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Highly compact Proca stars with quartic self-interactions2023

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Minamitsuji Masato
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 107 Issue: 4

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.107.044045

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Cosmological gravity probes: connecting recent theoretical developments to forthcoming observations2023

    • Author(s)
      Shun Arai, Katsuki Aoki, Yuji Chinone, Rampei Kimura, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hironao Miyatake, Daisuke Yamauchi, Shuichiro Yokoyama, et al.
    • Journal Title

      Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Some disquisitions on cosmological 2-form dualities2023

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Beltran Jimenez Jose、Figueruelo David
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2023 Issue: 04 Pages: 059-059

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/059

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Effective field theory of gravitating continuum: solids, fluids, and aether unified2022

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mukohyama Shinji、Takahashi Kazufumi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2022 Issue: 08 Pages: 072-072

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2022/08/072

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Resolving the pathologies of self-interacting Proca fields: A case study of Proca stars2022

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Minamitsuji Masato
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 106 Issue: 8

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.106.084022

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The effective field theory of vector-tensor theories2022

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mukohyama Shinji、Takahashi Kazufumi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2022 Issue: 01 Pages: 059-059

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/059

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Non-uniqueness of massless transverse-traceless graviton2021

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Di Filippo Francesco、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2021 Issue: 05 Pages: 071-071

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/071

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Is the Standard Model in the Swampland? Consistency Requirements from Gravitational Scattering2021

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Loc Tran Quang、Noumi Toshifumi、Tokuda Junsei
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters

      Volume: 127 Issue: 9 Pages: 1-6

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevlett.127.091602

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Positivity vs. Lorentz-violation: an explicit example2021

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Mukohyama Shinji、Namba Ryo
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2021 Issue: 10 Pages: 079-079

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2021/10/079

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Shift-symmetric SO(N) multi-Galileon2021

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Manita Yusuke、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2021 Issue: 12 Pages: 045-045

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/045

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Inflationary gravitational waves in consistent D → 4 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity2021

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mizuno Shuntaro、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2021 Issue: 01 Pages: 054-054

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/054

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ghost from constraints: a generalization of Ostrogradsky theorem2020

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Hayato Motohashi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 08 Issue: 08 Pages: 1-35

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/026

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Consistent inflationary cosmology from quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion2020

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2020 Issue: 06 Pages: 004-004

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/004

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A consistent theory of D→4 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity2020

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Physics Letters B

      Volume: 810 Pages: 135843-135843

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135843

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cosmology and gravitational waves in consistent D→ 4 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity2020

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、Gorji Mohammad Ali、Mukohyama Shinji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 2020 Issue: 09 Pages: 014-014

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/014

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Minimally modified gravity fitting Planck data better than Lambda CDM2020

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki、De Felice Antonio、Mukohyama Shinji、Noui Karim、Oliosi Michele、C. Pookkillath Masroor
    • Journal Title

      The European Physical Journal C

      Volume: 80 Issue: 8 Pages: 1-19

    • DOI

      10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8291-1

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Gravitational positivity bounds2020

    • Author(s)
      Tokuda Junsei、Aoki Katsuki、Hirano Shin’ichi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of High Energy Physics

      Volume: 2020 Issue: 11 Pages: 1-39

    • DOI

      10.1007/jhep11(2020)054

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Nonlinearly ghost-free higher curvature gravity2020

    • Author(s)
      Aoki Katsuki
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 102 Issue: 12

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.102.124049

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Analytic S-matrix of Unstable Particles2024

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      Kanto-NTU HEP Workshop
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Towards quantum gravity constraints from S-matrix2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      14th Taiwan String Workshop
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Towards quantum gravity constraints from S-matrix2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      BIG&C Meetings: Barcelona Initiative for Gravitation and Cosmology
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Effective field theory approaches to cosmology2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      IBS CTPU-CGA Workshop on Modified Gravity
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Is a scalar field everything about dark sectors/modified gravity?2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      第12回 観測的宇宙論ワークショップ
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Effective Field Theory of Vector-Tensor Theories2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      COSMO'23
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 不安定粒子の散乱振幅と正値性2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      素粒子物理学の進展2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Towards S-matrix theory of unstable particles2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      場の理論と弦理論2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Positivity beyond tree level2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      2023 Winter-I NRF-JSPS Workshop in particle physics, cosmology, and gravitation
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Effective field theory approaches to cosmology2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      Joint workshop on General Relativity and Cosmology
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Towards global S-matrix constraints on dark matter physics2023

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      FY2022 “What is dark matter? - Comprehensive study of the huge discovery space in dark matter”
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Effective Field Theory of Vector-Tensor Theories2022

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      9th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Positivity Bounds for Unstable Particles2022

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      量子重力と暗黒物質
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Effective Field Theory of Vector-Tensor Theories2022

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      JGRG31
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Effective Field Theory of Gravitating Continuum: Solids, Fluids, and Aether Unified2022

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会 年次大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Effective Field Theory of Vector-Tensor Theories2022

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Mohammad Ali Gorji, Shinji Mukohyama, Kazufumi Takahashi
    • Organizer
      Dawn of Gravitational-wave Cosmology and Theory of Gravity
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Effective Field Theory of Vector-Tensor Theories2022

    • Author(s)
      青木勝輝, Mohammad Ali Gorji, 向山信治, 高橋一史
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会年次大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Positivity vs. Lorentz-violation2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Shinji Mukohyama, and Ryo Namba
    • Organizer
      8th Korea-Japan workshop on Dark Energy
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] UV consistency of gravitational and cosmological EFTs2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Tran Quang Loc, Shinji Mukohyama, Ryo Namba, Toshifumi Noumi, and Junsei Tokuda
    • Organizer
      AAPPS-DACG Workshop 2021 on Astrophysics
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Positivity vs. Lorentz-violation2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Shinji Mukohyama, and Ryo Namba
    • Organizer
      JGRG30
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Is the Standard Model in the Swampland?2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki, Tran Quang Loc, Toshifumi Noumi, and Junsei Tokuda
    • Organizer
      Strings and Fields 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Non-linearly ghost-free higher curvature gravity2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsuki Aoki
    • Organizer
      Geometric Foundations of Gravity 2021, University of Tartu
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Is the Standard Model in the Swampland?2021

    • Author(s)
      青木勝輝, Tran Quang Loc, 野海俊文, 徳田順生
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Positivity Bounds on Standard Model and General Relativity2021

    • Author(s)
      青木勝輝, Tran Quang Loc, 野海俊文, 徳田順生
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Consistent inflationary cosmology from quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion2020

    • Author(s)
      青木勝輝
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Non-linearly ghost-free higher curvature gravity2020

    • Author(s)
      青木勝輝
    • Organizer
      Online JGRG2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] 京都大学基礎物理学研究所 重力量子情報研究センター

    • URL

      https://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cgpqi/

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2022 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 京都大学基礎物理学研究所 重力物理学研究センター

    • URL

      https://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cgp/jp/index.html

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 京都大学基礎物理学研究所 重力物理学研究センター

    • URL

      http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cgp/jp/index.html

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Gravity 2023: Dawn of field theoretic approach2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Gravity: Current challenges in black hole physics and cosmology2022

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report

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