A Viable model for modified gravity

TL;DR

This paper introduces a viable modified gravity model that ensures stability, reproduces key cosmological phases, and avoids detectable deviations from Newtonian gravity, contributing to the understanding of cosmic acceleration.

Contribution

It presents a new modified gravity model with stable solutions, matter stability, and the ability to describe both inflation and late-time acceleration.

Findings

Stable constant curvature solutions achieved.

Model can produce inflation and late-time acceleration.

Parameters can be chosen to avoid detectable Newtonian corrections.

Abstract

We propose a model for modified gravity that meets the conditions of viability. The model has stable constant curvature solution and for an special case contains flat space time solution. The model also leads to matter stability under small perturbations of scalar curvature. We give an example of restrictions on the parameters that give large enough scalaron mass to avoid detectable corrections to the Newton's law. The model describes inflation and late time accelerated expansion with an effective cosmological constant for the inflationary epoch and small effective cosmological constant for the current accelerated phase.