Comments on an alternative theory for the accelerating universe

Abstract

We utilize the recently released supernova data of Riess {\it et al.} on the acceleration of the universe to determine how the parameters of a particular modification of gravity, the DGP 5-dimensional theory, are changed when compared to determinations using earlier data sets. We show the parameters of the theory are now very tightly constrained and at very reasonable values. For example, the curvature parameter, $\Omega_k$, in contrast to an earlier analysis which used a smaller data set, is now consistent with zero, and the redshift at which the universe starts to accelerate is near unity.