F(T) gravity mimicking dynamical dark energy. Background and perturbation analysis

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dent, James B ^a   Dutta, Sourish ^b   Saridakis, Emmanuel N ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Dark energy theory; Modified gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551657872     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/009     Document Type: Article

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