FIZIKA B 19 (2010) 3, 169-176

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MODIFIED GAUSS-BONNET-BRANS-DICKE COSMOLOGY WITH FREEZING SCALAR POTENTIALS

RAMI AHMAD EL-NABULSI
College of Mathematics and Information Science, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, PR China
E-mail address: nabulsiahmadrami@yahoo.fr

Received 14 November 2007;     Revised manuscript received 13 July 2010
Accepted 24 November 2010     Online 7 March 2011

In this letter, we discuss the late-time dynamics of a modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory à la Brans-Dicke, dominated by freezing potentials V(ϕ)~ ϕ−n, n element of R. For a certain choice of the parameter n, it is observed that the universe is dominated by dark energy, accelerated in time and controlled by the Gauss-Bonnet invariant term. Besides, the Brans-Dicke parameter ω >> 1 compatible with some recent reports where this bound is updated by several thousands following from the bound on "γ−1" from the Cassini mission, ~γ being the PPN parameter. Many additional interesting features are raised and discussed in some details.

PACS numbers: 04.50.+h, 11.25.Yb, 98.80.Es, 95.36.+x
UDC 524.83

Keywords: modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity, dark energy, scaling solutions, accelerated expansion

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