Fourth order gravity: Equations, history, and applications to cosmology
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...…interest of the scientific community in higher-order theories of gravity, i.e., modifications of the Einstein–Hilbert action in order to include higher-order curvature invariants with respect to the Ricci scalar [see (Schmidt, 2007) for a historical review and a list of references to early work]....
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...The readers who are interested in the more detailed history of f (R) theories and fourth-order gravity may have a look at the review articles by Schmidt [531] and Sotiriou and Faraoni [556]....
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...The original scale invariant theory then, again emerges as the high-energy limit of that sum....
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...(Leipzig) 27 (1990) 41, gr-qc/0412038, are incorporated....
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...…order of the differential equation, a prescribed matter distribution plus the O(1/r)-behaviour of the gravitational potential suffice – such as it takes place in Newtonian theory – to determine the gravitational potential for isolated bodies in a unique way for the weak-field slow-motion…...
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