Thursday, February 21, 2013

1302.4831 (Kazuharu Bamba et al.)

Modified gravity: walk through accelerating cosmology    [PDF]

Kazuharu Bamba, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov
We review the accelerating (mainly, dark energy) cosmologies in modified gravity. Special attention is paid to cosmologies leading to finite-time future singularities in $F(R)$, $F(G)$ and $\mathcal{F}(R,G)$ modified gravities. The removal of the finite-time future singularities via addition of $R^2$-term which simultaneously unifies the early-time inflation with late-time acceleration is also briefly mentioned. Accelerating cosmology including the scenario unifying inflation with dark energy is considered in $F(R)$ gravity with Lagrange multipliers. In addition, we examine domain wall solutions in $F(R)$ gravity. Furthermore, covariant higher derivative gravity with scalar projectors is explored.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4831

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