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Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion?

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arxiv astro-ph/0307285 v2 pith:RL3VONCK submitted 2003-07-15 astro-ph gr-qchep-th

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We show that the recently suggested explanations of cosmic acceleration by the modification of gravity at small curvature suffer violent instabilities and strongly disagree with the known properties of gravitational interactions.

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