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Palatini formulation of modified gravity with squared scalar curvature

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In this comment we indicate that in the Palatini formulation of R2 gravity, there will be no gravity-driven inflation and under some particular assumptions there will be a mild power-law inflation a ∼ t2.

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  1. Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P.R. China

    Xinhe Meng

  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China

    Peng Wang

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Meng, X., Wang, P. Palatini formulation of modified gravity with squared scalar curvature. Gen Relativ Gravit 37, 419–420 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-005-0029-8

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