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arxiv: 0809.1535 · v2 · submitted 2008-09-09 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph· gr-qc· math-ph· math.MP

Accelerating cosmologies from non-local higher-derivative gravity

classification ✦ hep-th astro-phgr-qcmath-phmath.MP
keywords gravitynon-localacceleratingdevelopedformulationgauss-bonnethigher-derivativelocal
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We study accelerating cosmological solutions of a general class of non-linear gravities which depend on Gauss-Bonnet and other higher derivative invariants. To achieve this goal a local formulation with auxiliary scalars for arbitrary higher-derivative non-local gravity is developed. It is demonstrated that non-local Gauss-Bonnet gravity can be reduced, in the local formulation, to a model of string-inspired scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. A natural unification, in the theory here developed, of the early-time inflation epoch with a late-time acceleration stage can also be realized.

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