English

Diagnostic of $f(R)$ under the $Om(z)$ function

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-12 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We perform the two-point diagnostic for the Om(z)Om(z) function proposed by Sahni etal{\it et al} in 2014 for the Starobinsky and Hu & Sawicki models in f(R)f(R) gravity. We show that the observed values of the Omh2Omh^2 function can be explained in f(R)f(R) models while in LCDM the Omh2Omh^2 funticon is expected to be a redshift independent number. We perform the analysis for some particular values of Ωm0\Omega_m^0 founding a cumulative probability (P(χ2χmodel2)P(\chi^2 \leq \chi^2_{{\it model}})) P0.16P \sim 0.16 or 0.09\sim0.09 for the better cases versus a cumulative probability of P0.98P \sim 0.98 in the Λ\LambdaCDM scenario. We also show that these models present a characteristic signature around the interval between z2z\sim 2 and z4z\sim 4, that could be confronted with future observations using the same test.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03618,
  title  = {Diagnostic of $f(R)$ under the $Om(z)$ function},
  author = {Luisa G. Jaime},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03618},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D