1. Introduction
The investigation of alternative theories of gravity, particularly those involving a non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry, has gained significant attention due to certain limitations of the standard ΛCDM cosmological model. Although the ΛCDM model is remarkably successful in explaining a wide range of cosmological observations, including Type Ia supernova measurements [1] [2], observations from the Planck mission [3], and data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) [4], which collectively indicate that the universe is currently undergoing an accelerated phase of expansion, several theoretical challenges remain unresolved. Within the framework of General Relativity (GR), the observed late-time cosmic acceleration cannot be explained solely by ordinary matter and radiation, thereby necessitating the introduction of an exotic component with sufficiently negative pressure [5]. This situation has motivated researchers to pursue two principal approaches: the development of modified theories of gravity and the construction of alternative gravitational frameworks beyond GR.
A notable milestone in cosmology was Einstein’s introduction of the cosmological constant Λ into his field equations [6]. This concept later became a fundamental component of the ΛCDM model, where the cosmological constant acts as dark energy while cold dark matter accounts for the formation and evolution of large-scale structures [7]. Despite its outstanding agreement with observational data, the ΛCDM paradigm is confronted with significant theoretical issues, most notably the cosmological constant problem, which arises from the enormous discrepancy between the observed value of Λ and the value predicted by quantum field theories [8] [9]. These challenges have motivated the exploration of alternative gravitational theories that may provide a more comprehensive description of the universe and its accelerated expansion.
To explore the phenomenon of cosmic acceleration, various alternative models have been proposed, including numerous dark energy theories and modifications to GR [10] [11]. Some studies employ thermodynamic approaches to investigate the evolution of the deceleration parameter [12], while others examine the influence of additional barotropic fluids [13]. Furthermore, cosmographic techniques [13], holographic dark energy models [14], and analyses based on curvature eigenvalues [15] have been developed. Intermediate-redshift calibration methods have also provided valuable tools for examining cosmic correlations [16]. One of the earliest and most extensively studied modifications of General Relativity is the
gravity theory, in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is generalized by replacing the Ricci scalar
with an arbitrary function
. This framework offers a purely geometric explanation for the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe without invoking dark energy. The theory reduces to General Relativity for the particular choice
, whereas the inclusion of higher-order curvature terms enables the investigation of more complex cosmological dynamics [17].
More recently, gravitational theories involving matter geometry coupling have attracted considerable attention. In these models, modifications to gravity arise from direct interactions between matter and spacetime geometry. In particular, the
gravity theory, where
denotes the trace of the energy momentum tensor, provides a natural extension of
gravity and has been widely applied in cosmological studies. The modified gravity theories
[18] and
[19] have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The
framework incorporates both the Ricci scalar
and the trace of the energy momentum tensor
, introducing a coupling that permits the non-conservation of the energy momentum tensor. This feature has significant implications for cosmological dynamics, particularly in the presence of imperfect fluids [18]. On the other hand the
theory extends the gravitational Lagrangian by allowing an explicit dependence on the matter Lagrangian density
in addition to
, thereby enabling direct interactions between matter and geometry [19]. Such interactions may generate extra forces acting on massive particles and provide a useful framework for modeling dark sector phenomena.
Furthermore, the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity formalism offers a unified theoretical framework capable of addressing both cosmological and astrophysical challenges while remaining consistent with local gravitational tests. This approach has been proposed as a promising avenue for explaining the nature of dark energy and dark matter [20]. These modified theories of gravity have been extensively studied in various cosmological and astrophysical contexts. Recently, Haghani and Harko [21] introduced an extended class of modified gravity theories characterized by a non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry, known as
gravity. Zubair et al. [22] studied Stellar configurations in
gravity probing anisotropy and stability via minimal geometric deformation. Koussour et al. [23] investigated Late time acceleration in extended and unified
gravity with observational data. Kiroriwal et al. [24] investigated wormhole solutions in
gravity using a density gradient-dependent equation of state. Naseer et al. [25] studied cosmological models in
gravity using the gravitational decoupling approach and studied different phases of cosmic evolution. Mishra et al. [26] studied comparative study on neutron star structure in linear and non-linear matter-curvature coupling in
gravity using equation of states. In addition, several wormhole solutions have been obtained in the context of
gravity [27] [28].
Understanding the exact physical conditions that existed during the early evolution of the universe remains one of the major challenges in cosmology. It is widely believed that topological defects were produced during phase transitions in the early universe because of the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries. Among these defects, domain walls, cosmic strings, and monopoles are the most important stable structures. In recent years, domain wall cosmological models have attracted significant attention due to their unique properties and interesting gravitational effects, making them an active area of research. Various studies have examined domain walls under different theoretical frameworks. Katore et al. [29]-[31] studied domain walls in various cosmological scenarios. Vilenikin [32], Isper and Sikivie [33], Reddy et al. [34], Mukherjee [35] are some of the authors who have studied several aspects of domain walls in various context. Pradhan et al. [36] discussed solutions for inhomogeneous bulk viscosity with domain walls in the Lyra geometry in the plane symmetric space-time. Reddy et al. [37] have investigated a locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type II space-time in the framework of the modified theory of gravitation.
The motivation for the present study is to study the cosmic evolution of domain walls in the framework of
gravity for Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) metric. This theory provides a generalized description of gravity through the coupling of geometry with matter. By incorporating a deceleration parameter, we aim to study the expansion history of the universe and the behavior of domain wall energy density. By using this study we can examine whether the model can describe the transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion. We derive the solution of field equation using deceleration parameter,
and two model of
theory. This paper is organized as follows, Section 2 deals with metric and field equation. In Section 3 and Section 4, we obtained solution of field equations. Section 5 deals conclusion of this paper.
2. Metric and Field Equation
The
gravity theory, proposed by Haghani and Harko [21], is a generalized version of the
[18] and
[19] gravity models. In this theory, the gravitational Lagrangian is taken as an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar
, the trace
of the energy-momentum tensor, and the matter Lagrangian
. Therefore, the action in
gravity depends on both the geometrical and matter components of the universe.
Action of
theory is given by
(1)
where
is the determinant of the metric tensor
.
Now, after varying the action (1) with respect to the metric tensor
, we obtains the following field equations in
gravity
(2)
Here, notations
,
,
,
,
is the Ricci tensor,
the covariant derivative with respect to the symmetric connection associated to
, and new tensor
is defined as [21]
(3)
For a perfect fluid matter Lagrangian
defined as
where
is the energy density and the additional term
turns out to be zero [21]. Now we get modified field equation from Equation (2)
(4)
We consider the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) [29] cosmological model in the following form;
(5)
In FRW space time, the angles
and
are the usual azimuthal and polar angles of spherical coordinates. The
represents the curvature of the space. The curvature of space has three different values. When
the radius is finite and the universe is closed. When
, the universe is flat and when
the radius is infinite or imaginary corresponding to open universe [38].
The Ricci scalar
associated with the line element (12) can be derived as follows
(6)
where
is scale factor.
The energy momentum tensor of domain walls [29] is given as:
(7)
here
,
denotes energy density and pressure of domain wall respectively, and
is the four velocity vector with components
in the same direction with
. Based on the default model of particle physics, it is assumed that when the hot early universe cooled and expanded, the field would have settled to single values during extended regions. The boundaries of those different regions would be the domain walls. The energy momentum tensor
of domain walls include normal matter
and pressure
as well as tension
with the relation
(8)
(9)
satisfying
(10)
where,
.
The field equation for line element (5) using Equations (1) and (7)
(11)
(12)
where overdot (.) represent differentiation with respect to cosmic time t. We obtained two Equations (11) and (12) with three unknown
,
and
.
To obtain exact solution of field equation we consider two model of
theory, relation
and and deceleration parameter (DP) q.
Relation of equation of state is given as
(13)
The Hubble parameter is taken as [39]
(14)
where
,
, and
are model parameters. This parametrization generates different cosmological models depending on the value of
. Using the relation between the Hubble parameter and the deceleration parameter,
(15)
The corresponding deceleration parameter is obtained as
(16)
Thus, for different values of
, the model get different form of the deceleration parameter. Specifically, (
): Constant Deceleration Parameter (CDP) model,
Linearly Varying Deceleration Parameter (LVDP) model,
Quadratically Varying Deceleration Parameter (QVDP) model,
Cubically Varying Deceleration Parameter (CVDP) model,
Quartically Varying Deceleration Parameter (QUADP) model,
Quintically Varying Deceleration Parameter (QUIDP) model.
Using Equation (16) scale factor
is obtained as
(17)
where
is the constant.
The relation of red shift and scale factor is defined as
, where
is the present value of the scale factor.
The deceleration parameter and Hubble parameter in term of red shift obtained as follows
(18)
and
(19)
where
and
are new parameter regarding to
and
.
Figure 1 shows the variation of the deceleration parameter
versus redshift
for different values of the parameter
. It shows that the value of
increases as redshift increases. For different values of
the curve of DP have similar behavior. The negative values of DP represent the accelerated expansion of the universe, while the positive values indicate a decelerating phase. At high value of redshift DP is positive for
,
and
, as value of redshift decreases, DP is negative. It shows that in past universe is decelerated and in future it is accelerated for different values of the parameter
.
Figure 1. Plot of Deceleration Parameter
vs. red shift
for
,
.
3. Model I
In this model we consider the
model as [21]
(20)
where
and
are arbitrary constants and
where
is energy density.
Using Equations (6), (12), (13) (17) and (20)
is obtained as
(21)
where
,
.
Figure 2 and Figure 3 shows that the variation of the energy density
versus redshift
for different values of curvature parameters
,
,
and model parameters
,
,
,
. These graphs of Figures 2(a)-(f) and Figures 3(a)-(f) represents two different trajectories for
and
while the remaining parameters fixed at
,
,
,
, and
. It shows that energy density is high at high value of redshift and it is tends to zero as
, indicating that at early time of the universe energy density was very high and at late time of the universe it tends to zero. Furthermore, the model shows larger values of
for the dark-energy-dominated case
than for the stiff-fluid case
in the range of the redshift. Figure 2 and Figure 3 shows that as value of parameters
,
,
,
increases then energy density is also increases. While as curvature parameter
changes from 1 to −1 or 0 produces only minor quantitative differences, while the overall changes of the all graphs are same. This indicates that the parameter
has a stronger influence on the evolution of the energy density than the curvature parameter
.
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Figure 2. Graphical representation of the Energy density
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
and
.
Figure 3. Graphical representation of the Energy density
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
and
.
Overall, the obtained behavior is physically consistent with the standard cosmological picture, where the matter-energy content of the universe becomes increasingly concentrated at higher redshifts, and the dark-energy equation of state yields comparatively higher energy densities within the present model.
Using Equations (8), (9), (10), (11), (20) and (21) energy density of normal matter
is obtained as
(22)
where
.
Also, the tension of domain walls
is found to be as
(23)
Figure 4 and Figure 5 shows that the variation of the tension of domain walls
versus redshift
for different values of curvature parameters
,
,
and model parameters
,
,
,
. These graphs of Figures 4(a)-(f) and Figures 5(a)-(f) represents two different trajectories for
and
while the remaining parameters fixed at
,
,
,
, and
,
. It shows that tension of domain walls is high and positive at high value of redshift, the positive tension indicates that the domain walls possess a large amount of energy. Besides mass, pressure and tension also contribute to the gravitational field. As value of redshift decrease, the trajectory of tension of domain walls is decreases and in future it is negative
Figure 4. Graphical representation of the Tension of domain walls
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
and
.
Figure 5. Graphical representation of the Tension of domain walls
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
and
.
for different values of parameter
behaving like a negative pressure. This negative pressure produces a repulsive effect, which supports the accelerated expansion of the universe. These results are consistent with our earlier findings in
gravity theory [40]. Furthermore, the model shows larger values of
for the dark-energy-dominated case
than for the stiff-fluid case
in the range of the redshift. Figure 4 and Figure 5 shows that as value of parameters
,
,
,
increases then tension of domain walls is high. While as curvature parameter
changes from 1 to −1 or 0 produces only minor quantitative differences, while the overall changes of the all graphs are same. This indicates that the parameter
has a stronger influence on the evolution of the tension of domain walls than the curvature parameter
.
4. Model II
In this model we consider
model as [41]
(24)
where
,
and
are arbitrary constants.
Using Equations (6), (12), (13) (17) and (24)
is obtained as
(25)
where
Figure 6 and Figure 7 shows that the variation of the energy density
versus redshift
for different values of curvature parameters
,
,
and model parameters
,
,
,
. These graphs of Figures 6(a)-(f) and Figures 7(a)-(f) represents two different trajectories for
and
while the remaining parameters fixed at
,
,
,
,
and
. It shows that as value of redshift increases, energy density is high as redshift decreases energy density is also decreases and tends to zero as
. At early time of the universe energy density is high and at late time of the energy density is very low.
Furthermore, the model shows larger values of
for the stiff-fluid case
than the dark-energy-dominated case
in the range of the redshift. Figure 6 and Figure 7 shows that as value of parameters
,
,
,
increases then energy density is also increases. While as curvature parameter
changes from 1 to −1 or 0 produces only minor quantitative differences, while the overall changes of the all graphs are same. This indicates that the parameter
has a stronger influence on the evolution of the energy density than the curvature parameter
.
Using Equations (8), (9), (10), (11), (24) and (25) energy density of normal matter
is obtained as
Figure 6. Graphical representation of the Energy density
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
and
.
Figure 7. Graphical representation of the Energy density
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
and
.
(26)
Furthermore, the tension of domain walls found to be
(27)
where
,
Figure 8 and Figure 9 shows that the tension of domain walls versus redshift
for various values of curvature parameters
,
,
and model parameters
,
,
,
. These graphs of Figures 8(a)-(f) and Figures 9(a)-(f) represents two different trajectories for
and
while the remaining parameters fixed at
,
,
,
,
,
,
. It show that as value of redshift increases, tension of domain walls is high as redshift decreases tension of domain walls is also decreases and tends to zero as
. At early time of the universe tension of domain walls is high and at late time of the universe tension of domain walls is very low and tends to zero. This indicates that domain walls disappear in the far future, which has shown same result by Katore et al. [29].
Furthermore, the model shows larger values of
for the stiff-fluid case
than the dark-energy-dominated case
in the range of the redshift. Figure 8 and Figure 9 shows that as value of parameters
,
,
,
increases then tension of domain walls is also increases. While curvature parameter
have minor change for
,
and
, while the overall changes of the all graphs are same. This indicates that the parameter
has a stronger influence on the evolution of the tension of domain walls than the curvature parameter
.
Figure 8. Graphical representation of the Tension of domain walls
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
,
and
.
Figure 9. Graphical representation of the Tension of domain walls
for different values of
and
. The parameters are fixed at
,
,
,
,
,
and
.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we have studied the evolution of Friedmann-Robertson-walker (FRW) space time with domain walls in the framework of
theory of gravitation. We have solved field equations by using deceleration parameter,
and two models of
theory. At early time of the universe deceleration parameter is positive and at late time of the universe deceleration parameter is negative. Trajectory of decelerating parameter increases as value of parameter
increases. In model I, at early time of the universe energy density is high and at late time of the universe energy density is decreases and tends to zero. At early time of the universe domain walls is high and positive and at late time of the universe domain walls is decreases and negative.
In model II, at early time of the universe energy density is high and at late time of the universe energy density is decreases and tends to zero. At early time of the universe domain walls is positive and high and at late time of the universe domain walls is decreases and tends to zero. In both model I and model II energy density and domain walls is increases as increasing the parameter
. Change of trajectory of energy density and domain walls is minor for different values of curvature parameter
.
Author Contributions
All authors have same contribution for preparing this manuscript.