https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01749-6
Regular Article
Cosmological bouncing scenarios in symmetric teleparallel gravity
1
Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, 500078, Hyderabad, India
2
Ratbay Myrzakulov Eurasian International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 010009, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
3
Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010008, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Received:
1
June
2021
Accepted:
11
July
2021
Published online:
20
July
2021
Symmetric teleparallel gravity is an exceptional theory of gravity that is consistent with the vanishing affine connection. This theory is an alternative and a simpler geometrical formulation of general relativity, where the nonmetricity Q drives the gravitational interaction. Our interest lies in exploring the cosmological bouncing scenarios in a flat Friedmann–Limaître–Robertson–Walker spacetime within this framework. We explore bouncing scenarios with two different Lagrangian forms of f(Q) such as a linear and nonlinear dependence on Q. We have successfully examined all the energy conditions and stability analysis for both models to present a matter bounce.
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