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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765485703321

Autore

Petrov Albert

Titolo

Introduction to Modified Gravity / / by Albert Petrov, Jose Roberto Nascimento, Paulo Porfirio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-46634-9

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Physics, , 2191-5431

Altri autori (Persone)

NascimentoJose Roberto

PorfirioPaulo

Disciplina

530.1

Soggetti

Gravitation

Relativity (Physics)

Gravitational Physics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Alternative Relativity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Einstein gravity and the need for its modification -- Chapter 2. Modifications of the pure gravitational sector -- Chapter 3. Scalar-tensor gravities -- Chapter 4. Vector-tensor gravities -- Chapter 5. Horava-Lifshitz gravity -- Chapter 6. Nonlocal gravity -- Chapter 7. Summary.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reviews various modified gravity models, including those with modifications in the pure gravitational sector; those involving extra fields, that is, scalar-tensor and vector-tensor gravity theories; gravity models with Lorentz symmetry breaking; and nonlocal gravity models. The authors discuss both classical and quantum aspects of these theories. The book is unique in bringing together all the current alternatives to Einstein gravity in one source and serves as an excellent starting point for graduate students and other newcomers seeking an overview. This second edition has been expanded with new results from a variety of approaches including f(R,Q,P) gravity, galileon gravity and massive gravity. Extended discussions of Lorentz-breaking terms and of non-local field theory have been added and a completely new



chapter is devoted to models based on non-Riemannian geometry.