本文针对4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet（爱因斯坦-高斯-博内）引力中的反弹宇宙学展开研究，考察了对称反弹、物质反弹、超反弹、振荡反弹等多种反弹模型。研究以最通用的形式推导了能量密度、压强、状态方程参数的表达式，随后将其约化到各向同性、均匀的FLRW（弗里德曼-勒梅特-罗伯逊-沃尔克）宇宙下的4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet引力框架中。文中还讨论了哈勃参数与减速参数的物理诠释，并基于非零标度因子针对每个模型绘制了对应的参数演化曲线。非奇异反弹模型可解释晚期宇宙加速膨胀现象，分析表明高斯-博内耦合参数对修正引力动力学的贡献较小，而反弹参数的影响则较为显著。研究检验了多种能量条件，发现反弹模型中存在强能量条件与零能量条件的破缺；同时以宇宙时间和红移为变量，推导了急动参数与猛动参数的解析表达式。研究通过特定宇宙学检验探究了各反弹模型的有效性，且稳定性分析显示，随着反弹参数取值增大，物质反弹成为最稳定的模型。为获取参数的最佳拟合值，研究利用哈勃数据集与ΛCDM模型对反弹模型进行了约束，采用最小二乘拟合法计算了参数取值，并通过约化卡方方法对各模型的H(z)数据集进行量化分析。
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This manuscript is based on an investigation of bouncing cosmology in a 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Various bouncing models such as symmetric bounce, matter bounce, super bounce, and oscillatory bounce have been examined. Expressions for energy density, pressure, equation of state parameter have been derived in the most general manner and then reduced to 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity for isotropic, homogenous, FLRW cosmos. Physical interpretation of Hubble and deceleration parameters has also been discussed and plotted for each model from non-vanishing scale factors. Non-singular bouncing models indulge in accelerating late-time cosmic acceleration phenomenon. It has been analysed that the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter has a lesser contribution to the dynamics of modified gravity while the bouncing parameter has noticeable effects. We have examined various energy conditions and witnessed the violation of strong and null energy conditions in bouncing models. Analytical expressions for jerk and snap parameters have also been calculated in terms of cosmic time and redshift. We have explored bouncing models through specific cosmographic tests to check their validity. Also, through stability analysis, matter bounce becomes the most stable model by increasing the value of the bouncing parameter. To find best-fit values, bouncing models have been constrained with Hubble data set and $Λ$CDM. We have calculated the values of parameters by applying the least-square fitting method. To make this analysis quantified, we have employed reduced chi-squared method on $H(z)$ data sets for each model.
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We construct a holographic dark energy model with a non-minimally coupled scalar field on the brane where Gauss-Bonnet and Induced Gravity effects are taken into account. This model provides a wide parameter space with several interesting cosmological implications. Especially, the equation of state parameter of the model crosses the phantom divide line and it is possible to realize bouncing solutions in this setup.
We investigate gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric thin shell in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. Under the recently proposed 4D limit, we find that the collapsing shell will be bounced back at a small radius, without forming a singularity. This bouncing behavior is similar to those of a test particle and a homogeneous spherical dust star, in accordance with the expectation that the Gauss-Bonnet term will modify the small scale behavior of the Einstein gravity. We analyze the causal structure of the dynamic spacetime that represents the bouncing process, finding that the …
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This work is concerned to study the bouncing nature of the universe for an isotropic configuration of fluid $\mathcal{T}_{αβ}$ and Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric scheme. This work is carried out under the novel $f(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{T}_{αβ} \mathcal{T}^{αβ})$ gravitation by assuming a specific model i.e, $f(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{T}^2)=\mathcal{G}+α\mathcal{G}^2+2λ\mathcal{T}^2$ with $α$ and $λ$ are constants, serving as free parameters. {The terms $\mathcal{G}$ and $\mathcal{T}^2$ served as an Gauss-Bonnet invariant and square of the energy-momentum trace term as an inclusion in t…
Theoretical arguments and cosmological observations suggest that Einstein's theory of general relativity needs to be modified at high energies. One of the best motivated higher-curvature extensions of general relativity is Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, in which a scalar field is coupled to quadratic curvature invariants. This theory is inspired by an effective string-theory model and its predictions dramatically differ from Einstein's theory in high-curvature regions - such as the interior of black holes and the early universe - where it aims at resolving curvature singularities. In th…
In this paper we propose and extensively study mimetic $f({\cal G})$ modified gravity models, with various scenarios of cosmological evolution, with or without extra matter fluids. The easiest formulation is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier constraint. In certain versions of this theory, it is possible to realize accelerated expansion of the Universe or even unified evolution which includes inflation with dark energy, and at the same time in the same theoretical framework, dark matter is described by the theory. This is achieved by the re-parametrization of the metric tensor, which intr…
This work explains how the presence of a Type-IV singularity (a mild singularity) can influence the dynamics of a bouncing universe. In particular, we examine bounce cosmology that appears with a Type-IV singularity in the context of a ghost free Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity. Depending on the time of occurrence of the Type-IV singularity, three different cases may arise -- when the singularity occurs before the bounce or after the bounce or at the instant of the bounce respectively. However in all of these cases, we find that in the case when the singularity "globally" affects the spacetime,…
In the context of a ghost free $f(R,\mathcal{G})$ model, an extended matter bounce scenario is studied where the form of the scale factor is given by $a(t) = (a_0t^2 + 1)^n$. The ghost free character of the model is ensured by the presence of a Lagrange multiplier, as developed in \cite{Nojiri:2018ouv}. The conditions under which, in this model, the speed of gravitational waves becomes equal to the speed of light (equal to one, in natural units), thus becoming compatible with the striking event GW170817, is investigated. It is shown that this happens for a class of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) coupling f…
