Holographic correspondence of $F(R)$ gravity with/without matter fields
Tanmoy Paul

TL;DR
This paper explores the holographic correspondence of various F(R) and F(T) gravity models, including matter fields, demonstrating their viability for inflation consistent with Planck 2018 data.
Contribution
It establishes a holographic correspondence for extended F(R) and F(T) gravity models with matter fields, including Kalb-Ramond fields, and shows their inflationary viability.
Findings
Holographic correspondence exists for various F(R) models without matter.
Correspondence extends to models with matter fields, including Kalb-Ramond.
Models are consistent with Planck 2018 inflation constraints.
Abstract
In this paper, we apply the holographic principle at the early universe, obtaining an inflation realization of holographic origin. First we show that under the consideration of extended infrared cut-offs, there exist a holographic correspondence of various F(R) (such as quadratic, cubic, exponential F(R) models) cosmological models in absence of matter fields. Then we establish that such holographic correspondence is not only confined to the vacuum F(R) gravity but also can be extended to the higher curvature models along with matter fields. In presence of matter field, in particular the second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field, all the considered F(R) models lead to a viable inflationary phenomenology consistent with Planck 2018 constraints. We further extend our discussion of holographic correspondence to F(T) cosmological models.
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Holographic correspondence of gravity with/without matter fields
Tanmoy Paul
School of Physical Sciences,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,
2A 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata - 700 032, India.
Abstract
In this paper, we apply the holographic principle at the early universe, obtaining an inflation realization of holographic origin. First we show that under the consideration of extended infrared cut-offs, there exist a holographic correspondence of various F(R) (such as quadratic, cubic, exponential F(R) models) cosmological models in absence of matter fields. Then we establish that such holographic correspondence is not only confined to the vacuum F(R) gravity but also can be extended to the higher curvature models along with matter fields. In presence of matter field, in particular the second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field, all the considered F(R) models lead to a viable inflationary phenomenology consistent with Planck 2018 constraints. We further extend our discussion of holographic correspondence to F(T) cosmological models.
I Introduction
The holographic principle originates from black hole thermodynamics and string theory and establishes a connection of the Ultraviolet cutoff of a quantum field theory, which is related to the vacuum energy, with the largest distance of this theory 1 ; 2 ; 3 . This consideration has been applied extensively at a cosmological framework at late times, in which case the obtained vacuum energy constitutes a dark energy sector of holographic origin, called holographic dark energy 6 . At this stage it deserves mentioning that the most general holographic dark energy is given by the one with Nojiri-Odintsov cut-off 7 and it is interesting that it may be applied to covariant theories too nojiri_new ; martiros . In particular, the holographic energy density is proportional to the inverse squared Infrared cutoff , namely , with the gravitational constant. Therefore the holographic Friedmann equation can be written as . Holographic dark energy acquires a vast phenomenology, both in its basic 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 as well as in its various extensions 15 ; 16 ; 17 ; 18 , and it can also fit well with observations 23 ; 24 ; 25 ; 26 . Beside the application of holographic principle in late time cosmology and dark energy epoch, recently the holographic principle is also applied to early universe cosmology to realize the inflation from holographic origin odintsov . In the case of early universe cosmology, holographic inflation proves to have a very interesting phenomenology, and thus it becomes a good candidate for the description of the early universe. However at the end of odintsov , the authors clearly showed that there exist a holographic correspondence of Starobinsky gravity inflation in absence of matter fields i.e the cosmological field equations of vacuum gravity can be reproduced from the holographic Friedmann equation (, as mentioned above) for a suitable choice of . Therefore the questions that naturally arise are:
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Is the holographic correspondence just confined to vacuum gravity or can be extended to other forms of “vacuum gravity models” ? Moreover what about the holographic correspondence for non-vacuum F(R) models i.e the F(R) models along with matter fields ?
We try to address these questions in the present paper.
II Holographic correspondence of F(R) gravity without matter fields
First, we show that the holographic inflation with generalized infrared cut-off can reproduce the cosmological equations for higher curvature like gravity (see nojiri for review of F(R) gravity) in absence of matter fields. As for example, we determine the corresponding cut-off for three popular forms of F(R) gravity, in particular , and respectively.
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For quadratic curvature gravity, let us consider the generalized infrared cut-off () as follows odintsov ,
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with be the model parameter and stands for quadratic curvature. Plugging back this expression into the holographic Friedmann equation and simplifying a little bit yield the following differential equation of the Hubble parameter as,
[TABLE]
With the information that the Ricci scalar in FRW geometry can be written as , it can be easily shown that eqn.(2) resembles with the cosmological equation for gravity. Thus the holographic inflation with the cut-off (see eqn.(1)) can reproduce the Starobinsky inflation 43 ; 44 ; 47 which is known to lead to inflationary observables in a very good agreement with observations.
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For cubic curvature gravity, starting with the following generalized infrared cut-off
[TABLE]
and inserting this expression into , one lands up with the following equation:
[TABLE]
with be the model parameter. Eqn.(4) represents the Friedmann equation for gravity. Thereby the cosmology of gravity can be realized from holographic origin with a specified infrared cut-off determined in eqn.(LABEL:cubic_cut-off). It is well known that does not give a good inflation, in particular the theoretical values of and do not support the observable constraints from Planck 2018. However in the present context, our main concern is not about presenting a viable inflationary model, rather to show how the holographic cut-off can mimic the cosmological equations for various F(R) gravity in absence of matter fields. The corresponding cut-off for higher curvature gravity matter fields will be presented in later section. However it was shown earlier tp1 that in presence of matter field, in particular the second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field, the cubic gravity model is consistent with the Planck 2018 constraints (i.e and ).
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For exponential F(R) gravity, the corresponding infrared cut-off is given by,
[TABLE]
where be the model parameter. This expression of along with the holographic equation lead to the following differential equation for :
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which can be re-written in the form
[TABLE]
with . Therefore the holographic equation can mimic the cosmological equations of exponential F(R) gravity, thanks to the holographic cut-off in eqn.(5). Moreover unlike to cubic curvature gravity, the exponential F(R) model is known to be in good agreement with Planck constraints odintsov2 .
At this stage it deserves mentioning that in gravity model , the higher curvature term(s) act as matter field with stress tensor given by
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where . The authors of cappo2 showed that describes a provided the following conditions-
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are satisfied, where is a scalar field, is a timelike vector field having and obeys the equation . With these three conditions, acts as T_{\mu\nu}^{(f)}=\big{(}\mu+p\big{)}u_{\mu}u_{\nu}+pg_{\mu\nu} (i.e as perfect fluid) with energy density and pressure given by
[TABLE]
respectively. However in a FRW spacetime, the conditions from eqn.(8) to (10) are assured for the choices : \xi=-R_{00}=3\big{(}\dot{H}+H^{2}\big{)}, and . These choices of and lead to the energy density () for quadratic, cubic and exponential F(R) models as
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where the superscripts stand as : ’q’ for quadratic, ’c’ for cubic and ’e’ for exponential F(R) model. It may be observed that right hand sides of eqns.(12) to (14) match with that of eqns.(2), (4) and (6) respectively. Thus the F(R) models described in the earlier subsections can act as a perfect fluid, in particular a over the four dimensional FRW spacetime.
Till now we describe the generalized infrared cut-offs for various F(R) gravity models in of matter fields (apart from geometric matter fields). However it is also important to investigate whether such holographic correspondence for higher curvature cosmological models are just confined to vacuum case or can be extended to the F(R) models along . This is discussed in the following section.
III Holographic correspondence of F(R) gravity with matter fields
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Without loss of generality, we start by considering an Infrared cut-off of the form
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with , and be the model parameters. Inserting it into along with a little bit simplification, we land up with the following differential equation,
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Eqn.(16) is actually a combination of two separate equations as,
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and
[TABLE]
respectively with . Therefore with the infrared cut-off determined in eqn.(15), the holographic equation can reproduce the cosmological scenario of gravity along with matter field having equation of state parameter denoted by and is identified with the integration constant in solving of eqn.(18). Moreover for , the cut-off in eqn.(15) matches with the expression in eqn.(1), as expected.
Whether the fluid is scalar or vector or higher rank tensor field depends on the state parameter which in turn fixes the form of the cut-off according to eqn.(15): as for example -
(1) a massless scalar field has , since the energy density() and pressure () of a massless scalar field is given by and respectively where is the scalar field,
(2) the electromagnetic vector field has which comes from the fact that the trace of energy momentum tensor of electromagnetic field vanishes,
(3) the second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond (KR) field has which gives its evolution as i.e the energy density of KR field decreases with a faster rate in comparison to pressureless matter and radiation. This explains why the present universe is practically free from any signatures of KR field. However the KR field has considerable effects in early universe, in particular the presence of KR field enhances the value of tensor to scalar ratio with respect to F(R) gravity alone tp1 ; tp2 . Earlier it was shown tp1 that gravity with KR field gives a i.e supports an exit of inflation as well as the theoretical values of and are consistent with Planck 2018 constraints. For completeness, here we give the the simultaneous plots of , for the specified range of the model parameters, see Figure[1].
However, observations based on Planck put a constraint on and as and (combining with BICEP2/Keck - Array) respectively. Therefore, figure 1 clearly shows that for , the theoretical values of , (in the present context) match with the observational constraints. In addition, by the estimated values of , the duration of inflation becomes (Gev)-1 if is separately taken as (in Planckian unit) tp1 . Within this parametric regime, the number of e-foldings (N) comes as tp1 . These results are summarized in Table 1.
Thus the holographic inflation with the cut-off determined in eqn.(15) (with ) reproduces gravity with second rank antisymmetric KR field, which is known to lead a good inflationary dynamics and also the observable parameters lie within the Planck 2018 constraints.
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In order to generate the cubic curvature gravity with matter fields from holographic principle, we consider the following Infrared cut-off,
[TABLE]
Plugging back this expression into , one lands up with the following cosmological equation of Hubble parameter:
[TABLE]
Eqn.(20) resembles with the cosmological scenario of gravity model along with matter fields having be the equation of state parameter. Therefore the cut-off determined in eqn.(LABEL:cubic_field_cut-off) along with the holographic equation encodes the cosmological informations of gravity in presence of matter fields.
As mentioned earlier, unlike to vacuum gravity, the model along with Kalb-Ramond field (having ) leads to the inflationary parameters which are in good agreement with the latest Planck constraints, as shown in tp1 . However for completeness, here we present the simultaneous plots of , in Figure[2] which clearly demonstrates that the theoretical values of and fit well with the Planck constraints.
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For exponential F(R) gravity matter fields, we take the infrared cut-off as follows:
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This expression along with the equation immediately lead to the following differential equation for the Hubble parameter,
[TABLE]
Eqn.(22) represents the cosmological scenario of along with matter fields if is identified with the equation of state parameter of the matter field. The inflationary phenomenology of vacuum exponential gravity is already presented in odintsov2 . However here we briefly discuss the phenomenology of the model in presence of the second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field, recall, KR field has . The spectral index and tensor to scalar ratio in the present context are defined as follows tp1 ; new1 ; new2 ; tp2 :
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and
[TABLE]
Here the slow roll parameters (, , , ) are defined by the following expressions,
[TABLE]
where and are given by,
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and
[TABLE]
with () being the energy density of the KR field. By using the field equations, one can simplify the expressions of and to yield
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
respectively. Having these expressions in hand along with , we give the simultaneous plot of , in Figure[3] which reveals that the theoretical values of and in the present context lie within the Planck 2018 constraints.
Hence we can argue that the generalized infrared cut-off obtained in eqn.(21) can reconstruct the cosmological field equations for exponential F(R) gravity in presence of Kalb-Ramond field, which gives the inflationary parameters to be in good agreement with Planck constraints, as confirmed by Fig.[3].
The above subsections clearly demonstrate that the holographic correspondence of higher curvature cosmological models are not only confined in vacuum but also can be extended to the F(R) models along with the matter fields.
IV Holographic correspondence of F(T) cosmology
We extend our discussion of holographic correspondence to the generalized teleparallel cosmology i.e F(T) cosmology cappo ; saridakis ; bamba . The teleparallel gravity is described by the Weitzenbock connection which is curvature-free, unlike to Einstein’s General Relativity. This new connection is determined by two dynamical variables, namely the tetrads and the spin connection. In the current work, we consider the flat FRW metric i.e
[TABLE]
where is the scale factor of the Universe. The natural choice of tetrad for this metric is
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This form of the FRW metric is very advantageous because its spin connection vanishes saridakis , and so no extra contribution is needed in the F(T) field equations. Analogous to Ricci scalar in GR, one can define torsion scalar in teleparallel gravity, which plays the role of Lagrangian for the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) case. For the aforementioned tetrad in eqn.(31), the torsion scalar turns out to be , with being the Hubble parameter.
Following the same reasoning as F(R) gravity, the action of TEGR can be generalized to
[TABLE]
where and is an analytic function of . Variation of the action with respect to the tetrad along with the consideration of flat FRW spacetime lead to the following equation:
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For cosmological interest, we consider a power law model of the following form cappo ; 190
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Earlier it was shown that the F(T) model in eqn.(34) (along with suitable initial conditions) allow the universe to evolve from an initial phase of radiation domination to a cosmic acceleration at late times for cappo . By substituting the above form of F(T) into the Friedmann equation (33) and after some simplification, we get a non-zero constant expression of the Hubble parameter as follows,
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However eqn.(35) can be reconstructed from the holographic Friedmann equation (i.e ) with the infrared cut-off given by,
[TABLE]
Therefore the power law F(T) model shown in eqn.(34) has a holographic correspondence with the infrared cut-off determined in eqn.(36). Similarly, the cosmological field equations for other F(T) models can also be reproduced from with suitable infrared cut-off, for example :
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L_{IR}=\sqrt{6}~{}\bigg{[}\frac{\beta(1-2q)}{2}\bigg{]}^{\frac{1}{2(q-1)}} for F(T)=-\beta\big{(}-T\big{)}^{q}
and
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for
respectively. The above two forms of F(T) gravity help to describe the early universe inflation as demonstrated in myrzakulov_new .
Thereby we can argue that similar to F(R) gravity, the F(T) model(s) may also be realized from holographic origin.
V Conclusion
In this paper, we apply the holographic principle at the early universe, obtaining an inflation realization of holographic origin. We construct generalizations of holographic inflation which are based on extended Infrared cut-offs. Under these considerations, it was shown earlier odintsov that the scenario of holographic inflation, under the generalized Infrared cutoff can reproduce Starobinsky inflation. However in the present context, we show that with the help of generalized holographic cut-off, one can go beyond the Starobinsky inflation and can reconstruct the cosmological field equations of other F(R) models also, in particular the cubic and exponential F(R) gravity in absence of matter fields. Moreover we show that such holographic correspondence is not only confined to the vacuum F(R) gravity, but also can be extended to the cosmological F(R) models along with matter fields. We explicitly determine the infrared cut-offs for various F(R) models (such as quadratic, cubic and exponential F(R) gravity) along with matter fields having a constant equation of state (e.o.s) parameter : massless scalar field, electromagnetic vector field, second rank antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field etc. belong from this class (i.e constant e.o.s parameter) of matter field. In presence of matter field, in particular the Kalb-Ramond field, all the considered F(R) models are known to lead the inflationary parameters which fit well with the Planck 2018 constraints. We further extend our discussion to F(T) cosmology and show that similar to F(R) gravity, the F(T) model(s) may also be realized from holographic origin. Thus the holographic inflation proves to have a very interesting phenomenology, which makes it a good candidate for the description of the early universe.
However it is important to consider other generalized Infrared cutoffs in order to obtain a correspondence with other geometrical inflationary models, such as Gauss-Bonnet, inflation 47 ; nojiri and moreover the models containing the matter fields with variable equation of state parameter. These are expected to investigate in a future work.
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