Consistency of Modified Gravity with a Decreasing Geff in a ΛCDM Background
Published in Physical Review D, 2018
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the consistency of a decreasing Geff(z) with some viable scalar-tensor and f(R) theories. We stress that f(R) theories generically can not lead to a decreasing Geff(z) for any cosmological background. For scalar-tensor models we deduce that in the context of a ΛCDM background a decreasing Geff(z) is not consistent with a large Brans-Dicke parameter ωBD,0 today. This inconsistency remains and amplifies in the presence of a phantom dark energy equation of state parameter. However, it can be avoided for w>-1. We also find that any modified gravity model with the required decreasing Geff(z) and Geff,0=G, would have a characteristic signature in its growth index γ.
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Consistency of Modified Gravity with a Decreasing Geff in a ΛCDM Background
Radouane Gannouji, Lavrentios Kazantzidis, Leandros Perivolaropoulos and David Polarski
Phys.Rev. D98 (2018) no.10, 104044, arxiv:1809.07034.
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Radouane Gannouji - radouane.gannouji@gmail.com
Lavrentios Kazantzidis - l.c.kazantzidis@gmail.com
Leandros Perivolaropoulos - leandros@uoi.gr
David Polarski - david.polarski@umontpellier.fr