Abstract
In general relativity the geometrical property of the existence of a homothetic vector in a perfect fluid spacetime implies the physical property of self-similarity. It is shown that in higher-order Lagrangian theories of gravity this is not, in general, the case. In particular, the conditions under which a perfect fluid spacetime admitting a homothetic vector is self-similar are studied in the R+aR2 theory of gravity.
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