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Theories and Varying Fine Structure Constant
In analogy to theory, recently a new modified gravity theory, namely
the so-called theory, has been proposed to drive the current accelerated
expansion without invoking dark energy. In the present work, by extending
Bisabr's idea, we try to constrain theories with the varying fine
structure "constant", . We find that the constraints
on theories from the observational data are very
severe. In fact, they make theories almost indistinguishable from
CDM model.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, revtex4; v2: discussions added, Phys.
Lett. B in press; v3: published versio
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