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A characteristic signature of fourth order gravity

Astrophysics 2008-12-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present for the first time the complete matter power spectrum for RnR^n gravity which has been derived from the fourth order scalar perturbation equations. This leads to the discovery of a characteristic signature of fourth order gravity in the matter power spectrum, the details of which have not seen before in other studies in this area and therefore provides a crucial test for fourth order gravity on cosmological scales.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0812.2028,
  title  = {A characteristic signature of fourth order gravity},
  author = {Kishore N. Ananda and Sante Carloni and Peter K. S. Dunsby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2028},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages and 3 figures

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