The Stability of modified gravity models

Nov, 2005
22 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 72 (2005) 124005
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Conditions for the existence and stability of de Sitter space in modified gravity are derived by considering inhomogeneous perturbations in a gauge-invariant formalism. The stability condition coincides with the corresponding condition for stability with respect to homogeneous perturbations, while this is not the case in scalar-tensor gravity. The stability criterion is applied to various modified gravity models of the early and the present universe.
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  • modified gravity
  • de Sitter space
  • scalar-tensor gravity
  • gravitation: model
  • space-time: de Sitter
  • stability