Effective fluid FLRW cosmologies of minimal massive gravity

Abstract

By using a solution ansatz we partially decouple the metric and the Stückelberg sectors of the minimal massive gravity (MMGR). In this scheme for a diagonal physical metric we find the general solutions for the scalars of the theory and the particular fiducial (background) metric which leads to these solutions. Then we adopt this general formalism to construct the derivation of new Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmologies of the theory in the presence of a so-called effective ideal fluid which arises from our solution ansatz as a modifying non-physical source for the Einstein and the corresponding Friedmann equations. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.