Gif Lectures on Cosmic Acceleration

2009/12/18 by Philippe Brax, Brax, Philippe · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0912.3610

45 pages, based on lectures given at the Gif summer school, "Dark Matter and Dark Energy", Batz sur mer, 21-25 September 2009

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Abstract

These lecture notes cover some of the theoretical topics associated with cosmic acceleration. Plausible explanations to cosmic acceleration include dark energy, modified gravity and a violation of the Copernican principle. Each of these possibilities are briefly described.

Citations

• Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
• Dynamics of dark energy
• Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field
• The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment

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