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Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential: The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds

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Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential: The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds. / Edholm, James.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 97, No. 6, 064011, 15.03.2018.

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Edholm, J 2018, 'Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential: The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds', Physical Review D, vol. 97, no. 6, 064011. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064011

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Edholm, J. (2018). Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential: The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds. Physical Review D, 97(6), Article 064011. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064011

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Edholm J. Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential: The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds. Physical Review D. 2018 Mar 15;97(6):064011. Epub 2018 Mar 14. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064011

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Edholm, James. / Revealing infinite derivative gravity's true potential : The weak-field limit around de Sitter backgrounds. In: Physical Review D. 2018 ; Vol. 97, No. 6.

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abstract = "General Relativity is known to produce singularities in the potential generated by a point source. Our universe can be modelled as a de Sitter (dS) metric and we show that ghost-free Infinite Derivative Gravity (IDG) produces a non-singular potential around a dS background, while returning to the GR prediction at large distances. We also show that although there are an apparently infinite number of coefficients in the theory, only a finite number actually affect the predictions. By writing the linearised equations of motion in a simplified form, we find that at distances below the Hubble length scale, the difference between the IDG potential around a flat background and around a de Sitter background is negligible.",
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