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The cosmic snap parameter in f(R) gravity

Nikodem J Popławski 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 3013-3020   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/11/014  Help

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Nikodem J Popławski
Department of Physics, Indiana University, 727 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
E-mail: nipoplaw@indiana.edu

Abstract. We derive the expression for the snap parameter in f(R) gravity. We use the Palatini variational principle to obtain the field equations and regard the Einstein conformal frame as physical. We predict the present-day value of the snap parameter for the particular case f(R) = R − const/R, which is the simplest f(R) model explaining the current acceleration of the universe.

PACS numbers: 04.50.-h, 95.36.+x, 98.80.−k

Print publication: Issue 11 (7 June 2007)
Received 1 December 2006, in final form 10 April 2007
Published 22 May 2007

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