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New Horizons in Mathematical Physics

Connecting Noncommutative Geometry to f(R) Modified Gravity

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DOI: 10.22606/nhmp.2018.24002

Author(s)

  • Peter K F Kuhfittig*
    Department of Mathematics, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-3109, USA

Abstract

It is shown in this note that a noncommutative-geometry background determines the modified-gravity function f(R) for modeling dark matter.

Keywords

Noncommutative geometry; f(R) modified gravity.

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