00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611236198 Buklod 20140502105254.0 m go j cr |n |||auu|a 101029s2011 xx u | eng d 9789400701656 (eBook) 9400701659 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00215705413 DLC DML eng DMLUC QC 178 C176 2011eb Capozziello, Salvatore Beyond Einstein gravity [electronic resource] a survey of gravitational theories for cosmology and astrophysics Salvatore Capozziello, Valerio Faraoni. New York Springer 2011. 1 online resource (xix, 428 p.) ill. Fundamental Theories of Physics 170 1. Extended gravity: a primer -- 2. Mathematical Tools -- 3. The landscape beyond Einstein gravity -- 4. Spherical symmetry -- 5. Weak-field limit -- 6. Qualitative analysis and exact solutions in cosmology -- 7. Cosmology -- 8. From the early to the present universe -- A. Physical constants and astrophysical and cosmological parameters -- B. The Noether symmetry approach to f(R) gravity -- C. The weak-field limit of metric f(R) gravity -- References -- Index. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. Beyond Einstein?s Gravity is a graduate level introduction to extended theories of gravity and cosmology, including variational principles, the weak-field limit, gravitational waves, mathematical tools, exact solutions, as well as cosmological and astrophysical applications. The book provides a critical overview of the research in this area and unifies the existing literature using a consistent notation. Although the results apply in principle to all alternative gravities, a special emphasis is on scalar-tensor and f(R) theories. They were studied by theoretical physicists from early on, and in the 1980s they appeared in attempts to renormalize General Relativity and in models of the early universe. Recently, these theories have seen a new lease of life, in both their metric and metric-affine versions, as models of the present acceleration of the universe without introducing the mysterious and exotic dark energy. The dark matter problem can also be addressed in extended gravity. These applications are contributing to a deeper understanding of the gravitational interaction from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view. An extensive bibliography guides the reader into more detailed literature on particular topics. Electronic reproduction. New York SpringerLink 2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink. Gravitation. Electronic books. Faraoni, Valerio. SpringerLink (Online service). Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-0165-6 FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource