(1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, 35487-0324 Tuscaloosa, Alabama;(2) Departamento de Fisica Matematica do Instituto de Fisica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21945 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
Abstract:
The Brans-Dicke (BD) theory admits de Sitter spacetime as a solution with an equation of statep=1/3 when the coupling constant of the BD theory is –3/2.