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arxiv: 1106.0328 · v1 · pith:OJGC2BPDnew · submitted 2011-06-01 · 🌀 gr-qc

R^n gravity and the chameleon

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keywords chameleongravityboundscloseconstrainedexponentignoredinvoking
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The Solar System bounds on R^n gravity are often ignored in the literature by invoking the chameleon mechanism. We show that in order for the latter to work, the exponent n must be ridicolously close to unity and, therefore, these theories are severely constrained.

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