How to Distinguish Dark Energy and Modified Gravity?
arXiv:0803.3292 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.023011
Abstract
The current accelerated expansion of our universe could be due to an unknown energy component (dark energy) or a modification to general relativity (modified gravity). In the literature, it has been proposed that combining the probes of the cosmic expansion history and growth history can distinguish between dark energy and modified gravity. In this work, without invoking non-trivial dark energy clustering, we show that the possible interaction between dark energy and dark matter could make the interacting dark energy model and the modified gravity model indistinguishable. An explicit example is also given. Therefore, it is required to seek some complementary probes beyond the ones of cosmic expansion history and growth history.
10 pages, 2 figures, revtex4; v2: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D; v3: typos corrected; v4: published version
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