Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1304.3462 (Amare Abebe et al.)

Large Scale Structure Constraints for a Class of f(R) Theories of
Gravity
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Amare Abebe, Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, Peter K. S. Dunsby
Over the last few years much attention has been given to the study of modified gravity theories in order to find a more natural explanation for the late time acceleration of the Universe. Nevertheless, a comparison of the matter power spectrum predictions made by these theories with available data has not yet been subjected to a detailed analysis. In the context of f(R) theories of gravity we study the predicted power spectra using both a dynamical systems approach for the background and solving for the matter perturbations without using the quasi-static approximation, comparing the theoretical results with the SDSS data. The importance of studying the first order perturbed equations by assuming the correct background evolution and the relevance of the initial conditions are also stressed. We determine the statistical significance in relation to the observational data and demonstrate their conflict with existing observations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3462

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