R^2 dark matter

There is a non-trivial four-derivative extension of the gravitational spectrum that is free of ghosts and phenomenologically viable. It is the so called R^2-gravity since it is defined by the only addition of a term proportional to the square of the scalar curvature. Just the presence of this term d...

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Autor: Ruiz Cembranos, José Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44919
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44919
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Cosmological models
General-relativity
Field-theory
Gravity
Consequences
Inflation
Geometry
Relics
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:There is a non-trivial four-derivative extension of the gravitational spectrum that is free of ghosts and phenomenologically viable. It is the so called R^2-gravity since it is defined by the only addition of a term proportional to the square of the scalar curvature. Just the presence of this term does not improve the ultraviolet behaviour of Einstein gravity but introduces one additional scalar degree of freedom that can account for the dark matter of our Universe.