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Energy conditions in gravity

arXiv:1212.4656 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/29/21/215016

Abstract

In order to constrain gravity from theoretical aspects, its energy conditions are derived in this paper. These energy conditions given by us are quite general and can be degenerated to the well-known energy conditions in General Relativity and theories of gravity with arbitrary coupling, non-minimal coupling and non-coupling between matter and geometry, respectively, as special cases. To exemplify how to use these energy conditions to restrict gravity, we consider a special model in the FRW cosmology and give some corresponding results by using astronomical observations.

10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1203.5593, arXiv:0903.4540 by other authors

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