Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, Diego Sáez-Gómez
Modified gravity is one of the most promising candidates for explaining the
current accelerating expansion of the Universe, and even its unification with
the inflationary epoch. Nevertheless, the wide range of models capable to
explain the phenomena of dark energy, imposes that current research focuses on
a more precise study of the possible effects of modified gravity may have on
both cosmological and local levels. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of
a type of modified gravity, the so-called $f(R,G)$ gravity and we perform a
deep analysis on the stability of important cosmological solutions. This not
only can help to constrain the form of the gravitational action, but also
facilitate a better understanding of the behavior of the perturbations in this
class of higher order theories of gravity, which will lead to a more precise
analysis of the full spectrum of cosmological perturbations in future.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4481
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