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New corrections to General Relativity are considered in the context of modified $f(R)$ gravity, that satisfy cosmological and local gravity constraints. The proposed models behave asymptotically as $R-2\Lambda$ at large curvature and show…
We investigate the realization of a nonsingular cosmological bounce in metric $f(R)$ gravity using a controlled exponential deformation of the Starobinsky $R^{2}$ model. Adopting a smooth Gaussian-type bouncing scale factor, we first…
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