Impact of projective curvature tensor in $f\left(R,G\right)$, $f\left(R,T\right)$ and $f\left(R,L_{m}\right)$-gravity

Abstract: This article concerns with the characterization of a spacetime and modified gravity, such as $f\left(R,G\right)$, $f\left(R,T\right)$ and $f\left(R,L_{m}\right)$-gravity equipped with the projective curvature tensor. We establish that a projectively flat perfect fluid spacetime represents dark energy era. Also, we prove that a projectively flat perfect fluid spacetime is either locally isometric to Minkowski spacetime or a de-Sitter spacetime. Furthermore, it is shown that a perfect fluid spacetime permitting harmonic projective curvature tensor becomes a generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime and is of Petrov type $I$, $D$ or $O$. Lastly, we investigate the effect of projectively flat perfect fluid spacetime solutions in $f\left(R,G\right)$, $f\left(R,T\right)$ and $f\left(R,L_{m}\right)$-gravity, respectively. We also investigate the spacetime as a $f\left(R,G\right)$-gravity solution of and use the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric to establish a relation among jerk, snap, and deceleration parameters. Numerous energy conditions are studied in terms of Ricci scalar with the model $f\left(R,G\right)=\exp(R)+\alpha \left(6G\right)^{\beta}$. For this model, the strong energy condition is violated but the weak, dominant and null energy conditions are fulfilled, which is in excellent accordance with current observational investigations that show the universe is now accelerating.