FRW cosmology in f (R, T) gravity

In the present paper, the work of Moreas et al. [P. H. R. S. Moraes, G. Ribeiro and R. A. C. Correa, A transition from a decelerated to an accelerated phase of the universe expansion from the simplest non-trivial polynomial function of T in the f (R, T) formalism, Astrophys. Space Sci. 361 (2016) 227-2311 is extended to study the FRW model in f (R, T) gravity. The expressions for deceleration and Hubble parameters are determined in terms of redshift. The age of the universe is established using 42 high-redshift type Ia supernovae data from the Supernova cosmology project and 15 low-redshift type Ia supernovae data from the Calhn/Tolono Supernova survey [S. Permutter et al., Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae, Astrophys. J. 517 (1999) 565-585]. For these redshifts, the data of observed apparent magnitude and luminosity distance are used for the comparison with the obtained theoretical values.