Cosmological constraints on f(R) gravity theories within the Palatini approach

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2005-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510519v2

Astron.Astrophys.454:707-714,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages (A&A), 7 figures. Minor changes to text plus added some references. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20064994

We investigate f(R) theories of gravity within the Palatini approach and show how one can determine the expansion history, H(a), for an arbitrary choice of f(R). As an example, we consider cosmological constraints on such theories arising from the supernova type Ia, large scale structure formation and cosmic microwave background observations. We find that best fit to the data is a non-null leading order correction to the Einstein gravity, but the current data exhibits no significant preference over the concordance LCDM model. Our results show that the often considered 1/R models are not compatible with the data. The results demonstrate that the background expansion alone can act as a good discriminator between modified gravity models when multiple data sets are used.

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