The careful physicist’s guide to modified gravity in the UV

In this thesis we investigate scalar and scalar-tensor field theories and their relation to low energy modifications of Einstein’s General Relativity (GR), as well as their mathematical validity and self-consistency. We begin by outlining the cosmological constant problem, and how large quantum corr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coltman, Ben
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64300/