Radiation dominated era and the power of general relativity

Abstract

An analysis in the framework of the radiation dominated era permits to put bounds on the weak modification of general relativity which arises from the Lagrangian R^{1+epsilon}. Such a theory has been recently discussed in various papers in the literature. The new bounds together with previous ones in the literature rule out this theory in an ultimate way.

arXiv comment7 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters

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