# Towards a sound massive cosmology

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel approach in dRGT massive gravity using a singular reference metric, enabling homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions that naturally include dark energy and dark matter effects, aligning with observational data.

## Contribution

It demonstrates that employing a singular reference metric in dRGT massive gravity allows for viable cosmological models with accelerated expansion and dark matter effects, overcoming previous limitations.

## Key findings

- Homogeneous and isotropic solutions are possible with a singular reference metric.
- Dark energy and dark matter effects emerge naturally in the model.
- The model is preliminarily consistent with supernova, CMB, and BAO data.

## Abstract

It is known that de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity does not permit a homogeneous and isotropic universe with flat or spherical spatial metrics. We demonstrate that a singular reference metric solves this problem in an economic and straightforward way. In the dRGT massive gravity with a singular reference metric, there are sound homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions. We investigate cosmologies with the static and dynamical singular reference metrics, respectively. The term like dark energy appears naturally and the universe accelerates itself in some late time evolution. The term simulating dark matter also naturally emerges. We make a preliminary constraint on the parameters in the dRGT massive gravity in frame of the present cosmological model by using the data of supernovae, cosmic microwave back ground radiations, and baryonic acoustic oscillations.