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Palatini Form of1/RGravity

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Flanagan, Éanna É.·2004·Physical Review Letters

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It has been suggested that the Universe's recent acceleration is due to a contribution to the gravitational action proportional to the reciprocal of the Ricci scalar. Although the original version of this theory disagrees with solar system observations, a modified Palatini version, in which the metric and connection are treated as independent variables, has been suggested as a viable model of the cosmic acceleration. We show that this theory is equivalent to a scalar-tensor theory in which the scalar field kinetic energy term is absent from the action. Integrating out the scalar field gives rise to additional interactions among the matter fields of the standard model of particle physics at an energy scale of order 10(-3) eV (the geometric mean of the Hubble and the Planck scales), and so the theory is excluded by, for example, electron-electron scattering experiments.

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Authors
Flanagan, É. É.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2004-02-17
Volume
92
Issue
7
Pages
071101-071101
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
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W2007073865
Cited by
253
References
2
FWCI
19.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
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