Monday, February 11, 2013

1302.1866 (F. G. Alvarenga et al.)

Dynamics of scalar perturbations in f(R,T) gravity    [PDF]

F. G. Alvarenga, A. de la Cruz-Dombriz, M. J. S. Houndjo, M. E. Rodrigues, D. Sáez-Gómez
In the context of f(R,T) theories of gravity, we study the evolution of scalar cosmological perturbations in the metric formalism. According to restrictions on the background evolution, a specific model within these theories is assumed in order to guarantee the standard continuity equation. Using a completely general procedure, we find the complete set of differential equations for the matter density perturbations. In the case of sub-Hubble modes, the expression reduces to a second-order equation which is compared with the standard (quasi-static) equation used in the literature. We show that for general f(R,T) Lagrangians the quasi-static approximation yields to very different results from the ones derived in the frame of the Concordance \Lambda CDM model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1866

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