Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion? (English) Zbl 1037.83028
Summary: We show that the recently suggested explanations of cosmic acceleration by the modification of gravity at small curvature suffer violent instabilities and strongly disagree with the known properties of gravitational interactions.
MSC:
| 83F05 | Relativistic cosmology |
| 83D05 | Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein’s, including asymmetric field theories |
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