2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
メトリック・アフィン重力理論における摂動論とその応用
| Project/Area Number |
21F21789
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
山口 昌英 東京工業大学, 理学院, 特定教授 (80383511)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
BAHAMONDE-BELTRA SEBASTIAN 東京工業大学, 理学院, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-11-18 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Gravity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
He constructed a Symmetric teleparallel gravity constructed with a nonzero nonmetricity tensor while both torsion and curvature are vanishing. In this framework, he found exact scalarised spherically symmetric static solutions in scalar-tensor theories built with a nonminimal coupling between the nonmetricity scalar and a scalar field. It turns out that the Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein solution has a symmetric teleparallel analogue (in addition to the recently found metric teleparallel analogue), while some other of these
solutions describe scalarised black hole configurations that are not known in the Riemannian or metric teleparallel scalar-tensor case. To aid the analysis he also derived no-hair theorems for the theory.
We formulated an analogue version of Horndeski gravity in a symmetric teleparallel geometry which assumes that both the curvature (general) and torsion are vanishing and gravity is only related to nonmetricity. Our setup requires that the Euler-Lagrange equations for not only metric and scalar field but also connection should be at most second order. We find that the theory can be always recast as a sum of the Riemannian Horndeski theory and new terms that are purely teleparallel. Due to the nature of nonmetricity, there are many more possible ways of constructing second-order theories of gravity. In this regard, up to some assumptions, we find the most general k-essence extension of Symmetric Teleparallel Horndeski gravity.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
He has already obtained a lot of good new results.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
He will continue working on different projects related to metric affine gravity and teleparallel theories.
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