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Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion?

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307285,
  title  = {Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion?},
  author = {A. D. Dolgov and M. Kawasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307285},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, no figure, revised version (one footnote added)