Matter loops corrected modified gravity in Palatini formulation

Details Matter loops corrected modified gravity in Palatini formulation Matter loops corrected modified gravity in Palatini formulation

2003-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310038v2

Commun.Theor.Phys.50:275-278,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, 1 figures, References added

Scientific paper

10.1088/0253-6102/50/1/53

Recently, corrections to the standard Einstein-Hilbert action are proposed to explain the current cosmic acceleration in stead of introducing dark energy. In the Palatini formulation of those modified gravity models, there is an important observation due to Arkani-Hamed: matter loops will give rise to a correction to the modified gravity action proportional to the Ricci scalar of the metric. In the presence of such term, we show that the current forms of modified gravity models in Palatini formulation, specifically, the 1/R gravity and $\ln R$ gravity, will have phantoms. Then we study the possible instabilities due to the presence of phantom fields. We show that the strong instability in the metric formulation of 1/R gravity indicated by Dolgov and Kawasaki will not appear and the decay timescales for the phantom fields may be long enough for the theories to make sense as effective field theory . On the other hand, if we change the sign of the modification terms to eliminate the phantoms, some other inconsistencies will arise for the various versions of the modified gravity models. Finally, we comment on the universal property of the Palatini formulation of the matter loops corrected modified gravity models and its implications.

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