F(R) Gravity - Introduction

Introduction

In f(R) gravity, one seeks to generalise the Lagrangian of the Einstein-Hilbert action:

to

where κ = 8πGc−4, g = |gμν| is the determinant of the metric tensor and f(R) is some function of the Ricci Curvature.

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