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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 77, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.123513
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Nonlocal quantum corrections to gravity have been recently proposed as a possible solution to the cosmological fine-tuning problems. We study the dynamics of a class of nonlocal actions defined by the function of the inverse d'Alembertian of the Ricci scalar. Power-law and exponential functions are considered in detail, but we also show a method to reconstruct a nonlocal correction that generates a given background expansion. We find that even the simplest terms can, while involving only Planck scale constants, drive the late time acceleration without changing early cosmology. This leads to a sudden future singularity which, however, may be avoided by regularizing the d'Alembertian. We also consider the Einstein frame versions of these models.
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