Enriched Phenomenology in Extended Palatini Theories

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2010-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3920v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

3 pages, ws-procs975x65.cls to appear in the Proceedings of 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Paris (France)

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We show that extended theories of gravity with Lagrangian f(R,R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu}) in the Palatini formulation possess a phenomenology much richer than the simpler f(R) or f(R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu}) theories. In fact, we find that the scalars R and Q=R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu} can be written as algebraic functions of the energy density and pressure of the energy momentum tensor. In the simpler cases of f(R) or f(R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu}) theories, R and Q are just functions of the trace T of the energy-momentum tensor. As a result, in radiation dominated universes f(R) and f(R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu}) theories exhibit the same dynamics as general relativity with an effective cosmological constant. This is not the case of f(R,R_{\mu\nu}R^{\mu\nu}) models, in which R=R(\rho,P) and Q=Q(\rho,P) and, therefore, modified dynamics exists even for traceless sources.

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