%0 Journal Article %T Consistency of the expansion of the Universe with density perturbations %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %A Gannouji, Radouane %A Polarski, David %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1550-7998 %J Physical Review D %I American Physical Society %V 98 %N 8 %P 083533 %8 2018 %D 2018 %Z 1805.08230 %R 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.083533 %K Cosmology %Z Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] %Z Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc]Journal articles %X Assuming a simple form for the growth index γ(z) depending on two parameters γ0≡γ(z=0) and γ1≡γ′(z=0), we show that these parameters can be constrained using background expansion data. We explore systematically the preferred region in this parameter space. Inside general relativity we obtain that models with a quasistatic growth index and γ1≈-0.02 are favored. We find further the lower bounds γ0≳0.53 and γ1≳-0.15 for models inside GR. Models outside GR having the same background expansion as ΛCDM and arbitrary γ(z) with γ0=γ0ΛCDM, satisfy Geff,0>G for γ1>γ1ΛCDM, and Geff,0