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Letter: The Force of Gravity from a Lagrangian Containing Inverse Powers of the Ricci Scalar

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We determine the gravitational response to a diffuse source, in a locally de Sitter background, of a class of theories which modify the Einstein-Hilbert action by adding a term proportional to an inverse power of the Ricci scalar. We find a linearly growing force which is not phenomenologically acceptable.

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    M. E. Soussa & R. P. Woodard

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Soussa, M.E., Woodard, R.P. Letter: The Force of Gravity from a Lagrangian Containing Inverse Powers of the Ricci Scalar. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 855–862 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000017037.92729.69

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