Yi-Fu Cai, Caixia Gao, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
We investigate non-singular bounce and cyclic cosmological evolutions in a universe governed by the extended nonlinear massive gravity, in which the graviton mass is promoted to a scalar-field potential. The extra freedom of the theory can lead to certain energy conditions violations and drive cyclicity with two different mechanisms: either with a suitably chosen scalar-field potential under a given fiducial-metric lapse function, or with a suitably chosen fiducial-metric lapse function under a given scalar-field potential. Our analysis shows that extended nonlinear massive gravity can alter significantly the evolution of the universe at both early and late times.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3786
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