Sudden cosmological singularities in Aether scalar-tensor theories
arXiv:2402.04091 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.104077
Abstract
In this work we analyze the possibility of sudden cosmological singularities, also known as type-II singularities, in the background of a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry in an extension of General Relativity (GR) known as Aether scalar-tensor theories (AeST). Similarly to several scalar-tensor theories, we observe that sudden singularities may occur in certain AeST models at the level of the second-order time derivative of the scale factor. These singularities can either be induced by AeST's scalar field itself in the absence of a fluid matter component, or by a divergence of the pressure component of the fluid. In the latter case, one observes that the second-order time derivative of the scalar field is also divergent at the instant the sudden singularity happens. We show that the sudden singularities can be prevented by an appropriate choice of the action, for which a divergence in the scalar field compensates the divergence in the pressure component of the matter fluid, thus preserving the regularity of the scale factor and all its time derivatives. For the models featuring a sudden singularity in the second-order time derivative of the scale factor, an analysis of the cosmographic parameters, namely the Hubble and the deceleration parameters, indicates that cosmological models featuring sudden singularities are allowed by the current cosmological measurements. Furthermore, an analysis of the jerk parameter favours cosmological models that attain a sudden singularity at a faster rate, up to a time of at most , where is the current age of the universe, and with negative values for the cosmological snap parameter.
15 pages, 10 figures, published version
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