Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
8 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at "The Invisible Universe International Conference", Paris, France, June 29-July 3, 2009; adde
Scientific paper
We study modified theories of gravity of the f(R) type in Palatini formalism. We first consider the stability of atoms when the Palatini gravitational interaction is taken into account in the derivation of the non-relativistic Schrodinger equation. We show that theories with infrared curvature corrections are ruled out by the mere existence of atoms. In particular, we carry out fully perturbative calculations that, for the first time, convincingly rule out the 1/R model of Carroll et al. in its Palatini version. We then study the Planck scale corrected quadratic model f(R)=R+R^2/R_P and show that it can avoid the big bang singularity for matter sources which satisfy all the energy conditions. We comment on the mechanisms that cure this singularity and point out that they are closely related to non-perturbative terms also present in the atomic Hamiltonian of infrared corrected models.
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