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Linear growth in power law $f(T)$ gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-05-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We provide for the first time the growth index of linear matter fluctuations of the power law f(T)(T)bf(T) \propto (-T)^{b} gravity model. We find that the asymptotic form of this particular f(T)f(T) model is γ6116b\gamma \approx \frac{6}{11-6b} which obviously extends that of the Λ\LambdaCDM model, γΛ6/11\gamma_{\Lambda}\approx 6/11. Finally, we generalize the growth index analysis of f(T)f(T) gravity in the case where γ\gamma is allowed to vary with redshift.

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@article{arxiv.1604.00264,
  title  = {Linear growth in power law $f(T)$ gravity},
  author = {Spyros Basilakos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.00264},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. D (typos corrected: this is the published version)