Ghosts, instabilities, and superluminal propagation in modified gravity models

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  De Felice, Antonio ^a   Hindmarsh, Mark ^a   Trodden, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Dark energy theory; Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749101029     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/08/005     Document Type: Article

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