On the energy flow of $\lambda$ in Hořava-Lifshitz cosmology

Abstract

Hořava-Lifshitz gravity has been proposed as a ghost-free quantum gravity model candidate with an anisotropic UV-scaling between space and time. We present here a cosmological background analysis of two different formulations of the theory, with particular focus on the running of the parameter $\lambda$. Using a large dataset consisting of Cosmic Microwave Background data from {\it Planck}, Pantheon+ supernovae catalogue, SH0ES Cepheid variable stars, Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), Cosmic Chronometers, and gamma-ray bursts (GRB), we arrive at new bounds on the cosmological parameters, in particular $\lambda$, which describes deviation from classical general relativity. For the detailed balance scenario we arrive at the bound $\lambda =1.02726\pm 0.00012$, and for beyond detailed balance the limit reads $\lambda =0.9949_{-0.0046}^{+0.0045}$. We also study the influence of different data sets and priors, and we find that removing low-redshift data generally moves $\lambda$ closer towards UV values, whilst simultaneously widening the error bars. In the detailed balance scenario, this effect is more noticeable, and $\lambda$ takes on values that are significantly below unity, which corresponds to the infrared limit of the theory.

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