Solar system and equivalence principle constraints on f(R) gravity by chameleon approach

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2007-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2268v2

Phys.Rev.D77:107501,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, no figures, version to appear in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.107501

We study constraints on f(R) dark energy models from solar system experiments combined with experiments on the violation of equivalence principle. When the mass of an equivalent scalar field degree of freedom is heavy in a region with high density, a spherically symmetric body has a thin-shell so that an effective coupling of the fifth force is suppressed through a chameleon mechanism. We place experimental bounds on the cosmologically viable models recently proposed in literature which have an asymptotic form f(R)=R-lambda R_c [1-(R_c/R)^{2n}] in the regime R >> R_c. From the solar-system constraints on the post-Newtonian parameter gamma, we derive the bound n>0.5, whereas the constraints from the violations of weak and strong equivalence principles give the bound n>0.9. This allows a possibility to find the deviation from the LambdaCDM cosmological model. For the model f(R)=R-lambda R_c(R/R_c)^p with 0

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