General properties of $\mathbf{f}(\mathbf{R})$ gravity vacuum solutions

Abstract

General properties of vacuum solutions of $f(R)$ gravity are obtained by the condition that the divergence of the Weyl tensor is zero and $f^{\prime \prime }\ne 0$. Specifically, a theorem states that the gradient of the curvature scalar, $\nabla R$, is an eigenvector of the Ricci tensor and, if it is time-like, the space-time is a Generalized Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric; in dimension four, it is Friedman-Robertson-Walker.

9 pages, accepted for publication in Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D