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Phantom behaviour and growth index anomalous evolution in viable f(R) gravity models

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-01-25 v2

Abstract

We present numerical calculation of the evolution of a background space-time metric and sub-horizon matter density perturbations in viable f(R)f(R) gravity models of present dark energy and cosmic acceleration. We found that viable models generically exhibit recent crossing of the phantom boundary wDE=1w_{DE}=-1. Moreover, as a consequence of the anomalous growth of density perturbations during the end of the matter-dominated stage, their growth index evolves non-monotonically with time and may even become negative.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0462,
  title  = {Phantom behaviour and growth index anomalous evolution in viable f(R) gravity models},
  author = {Hayato Motohashi and Alexei A. Starobinsky and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0462},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of 19th Workshop in General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG19); Figures 2 and 3 are replaced

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