Infrared Non-local Modifications of General Relativity

✍ Scribed by Ermis Mitsou

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 186
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Geneva, Switzerland Presents a new and promising approach to understanding phenomena of dark energy Winner of Geneva University's J. Wurth prize for the best physics PhD thesis

This thesis presents significant new results on the problem of understanding the origin of dark energy in cosmology. The work develops an original approach based on modifications of General Relativity at cosmological scales, introducing non­-local effective terms that can in principle emerge from fundamental local theories. Both the phenomenological consequences and theoretical aspects of the proposal are developed in depth. The thesis also contains significant new material compared to that published by the author in scientific journals.

Topics
Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
Cosmology

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Linear Massless/Massive Gauge Theories....Pages 21-80
Subtleties of Non-local Field Theory....Pages 81-97
Non-local Gravity....Pages 99-127
Cosmology....Pages 129-147
Conclusions....Pages 149-153
Back Matter....Pages 155-173

✦ Subjects

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory; Cosmology