https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11798-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Correction to Lagrangian for bouncing cosmologies in f(Q) gravity
1
Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, 500078, Hyderabad, India
2
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, Eroilor 29, Brasov, Romania
d
pksahoo@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Received:
2
May
2023
Accepted:
30
June
2023
Published online:
11
July
2023
Symmetric teleparallel gravity offers to reformulate the gravitational formalism without the presence of curvature and torsion with the help of non-metricity tensors. Interestingly, Symmetric teleparallel gravity can be formulated equivalently to teleparallel gravity or general relativity for an appropriate setup. In this study, our aim lies in exploring the bouncing cosmologies as an alternative to the initial singularity of the Universe in the background of modified symmetric teleparallel gravity. To explore this, we adopt the reconstruction technique to present the possible reconstructed Lagrangian for various cosmological bouncing solutions in a flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker spacetime with a perfect fluid matter distribution. We study the reconstructed gravitational Lagrangians, which are capable of reproducing analytical or semianalytical solutions for symmetric bounce, super-bounce, oscillatory bounce, matter bounce, and exponential bouncing model settings. Further, we examine the dark energy profiles of the models using reconstructed Lagrangians. In addition, we found that an additional term arises in each reconstructed Lagrangian compared to general relativity (GR). That extra term corrected the background GR to present bouncing cosmology in modified gravity. These newly motivated cosmological models may have an effect on gravitational phenomena at other cosmological scales.
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