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The evolution of gravitons in accelerating cosmologies: the case of extended gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-05-03 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss the production and evolution of cosmological gravitons showing how the cosmological background affects their dynamics. Besides, the detection of cosmological gravitons could constitute an extremely important signature to discriminate among different cosmological models. Here we consider the cases of scalar-tensor gravity and f(R)f(R) gravity where it is demonstrated the amplification of graviton amplitude changes if compared with General Relativity. Possible observational constraints are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05517,
  title  = {The evolution of gravitons in accelerating cosmologies: the case of extended gravity},
  author = {Salvatore Capozziello and Mariafelicia De Laurentis and Shin'ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05517},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, to be published in Physical Review D