Cosmic Acceleration in Brans-Dicke Cosmology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2012-01-26 v1
Abstract
We consider Brans-Dicke theory with a self-interacting potential in Einstein conformal frame. We show that an accelerating expansion is possible in a spatially flat universe for large values of the Brans-Dicke parameter consistent with local gravity experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1110.3421,
title = {Cosmic Acceleration in Brans-Dicke Cosmology},
author = {Yousef Bisabr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3421},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
10 Pages, 3 figures, To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation