No slip gravity
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A subclass of the Horndeski modified gravity theory we call No Slip Gravity has particularly interesting properties: 1) a speed of gravitational wave propagation equal to the speed of light, 2) equality between the effective gravitational coupling strengths to matter and light, G matter and G light , hence no slip between the metric potentials, yet difference from Newton's constant, and 3) suppressed growth to give better agreement with galaxy clustering observations. We explore the characteristics and implications of this theory, and project observational constraints. We also give a simple expression for the ratio of the gravitational wave standard siren distance to the photon standard candle distance, in this theory and others, and enable a direct comparison of modified gravity in structure growth and in gravitational waves, an important crosscheck.
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Linder (2018) considered scalar-tensor models where the slip parameter is identically zero, and found that stability conditions reduce the independent parameters to only one.
“It was then shown that stability conditions for absence of ghosts and a positive sound speed squared for perturbations impose further restrictions on reducing the independent parameters to only one. So this no slip gravity can be characterized by one MG parameter.”
From Testing general relativity in cosmology (2019) · cites this paper as Linder (2018)
Section 2 gives the no-slip condition αB = −2αM, and Section 3 calls No Slip Gravity a one-function theory for a given background expansion. Section 3 says stability restricts the form of that function; it does not say stability reduces the theory to one independent parameter. Its illustrative function has three parameters. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredNo-slip gravity predicts a weaker gravity than GR, which explains the growth fit and could inform the tension in the low amplitude found in weak lensing studies.
“It was noted that, unlike many other scalar–tensor theories, no-slip gravity predicts a weaker gravity than GR which explains the growth fit and, as the author states, could potentially inform the tension in the low amplitude found in weak lensing studies.”
From Testing general relativity in cosmology (2019) · cites this paper as Linder (2018)
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- Authors
- Linder, E. V.
- Affiliations
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Linder, Eric V.
- ORCID
- Linder, Eric V.
- Venue
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- Volume
- 2018
- Issue
- 03
- Pages
- 005-005
- ISSN
- 1475-7508 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-7516
- OpenAlex
- W2782464797
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 13
- FWCI
- 8.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Nazarbayev University Repository (Nazarbayev University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, DESC0007867, 05CH11231, DE AC02 05CH11231, DE-AC02-)
- Office of Science (DEAC02–05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02, 05CH11231)
- High Energy Physics (DE-SC-0007867, DEAC02--05CH11231)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Keywords
- Horndeski gravity, modified gravity, gravitational wave speed, metric potentials, structure growth, galaxy clustering, gravitational-wave standard sirens, observational constraints
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