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Tsujikawa, Phys. Rev. D 77, 023507 (2008)

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Conditions for the viability of f(R) gravity >(1) f 0 (R) > 0f 00 (R) > 0(2) [Dolgov and Kawasaki, <strong>Phys</strong>. Lett. B 573, 1 (2003)](3)・Positivity of the effective gravitational couplingG eff = G 0 /f 0 (R) > 0 G 0 : Gravitational constant(The graviton is not a ghost.)・ Stability condition: M 2 ù 1/(3f 00 (R)) > 0M : Mass of a new scalar degree of freedom (called the“scalaron”) in the weak-field regime.(The scalaron is not a tachyon.)f(R) → R à 2Λ for R ý R 0R 0Λ: Current curvatureΛ : Cosmological constant・ Realization of the CDM-like behavior in the largecurvature regimeNo. 14Standard cosmology [ Λ + Cold dark matter (CDM)]

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