1107.1463 (A. O. Barvinsky)

Dark energy and dark matter from nonlocal ghost-free gravity theory    [PDF]

A. O. Barvinsky

We suggest a class of generally covariant ghost-free nonlocal gravity models generating de Sitter or Anti-de Sitter background with an arbitrary value of the effective cosmological constant and featuring a mechanism of dark matter simulation. These models interpolate between the general relativistic phase on a flat spacetime background and their strongly coupled infrared (Anti)-de Sitter phase with two propagating massless graviton modes.

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