Big rip in shift-symmetric Kinetic Gravity Braiding theories

We revise the future fate of a group of scalar-tensor theories known as kinetic gravity braiding models. As it is well-known, these theories can safely drive the expansion of the universe towards a future de Sitter state if the corresponding Lagrangian is invariant under constant shifts in the scala...

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Main Authors: Teodor Borislavov Vasilev, Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Prado Martín-Moruno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932300045X