On the cosmological backreaction for large distance modifications of gravity

Understand

Every theory that modifies gravity at cosmological distances and that is not already ruled out by the Solar system observations must exhibit some nonlinear mechanism that turns off the modification close to a compact matter source.

• Given this nonlinearity, one might expect such a theory to show a large gravitational backreaction, i.e.
• an order one influence of the small scale inhomogeneities on the large scale evolution of the Universe.
• We argue that this is not necessarily the case.