Accelerated cosmic expansion : proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology
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Accelerated cosmic expansion : proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology
（Astrophysics and space science proceedings, v. 38）
Springer, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Proceedings from the 2012 Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, focusing on accelerated cosmic expansion
This volume provides both an update and a review of the state of alternative theories of gravity in connection with the accelerated expansion of the universe issue. Different theoretical proposals exist to explain the acceleration in the cosmic expansion, generating the dark energy issue and opening the possibility to theories of gravity alternative to general relativity. Related issues such as the dark matter problem are also surveyed in order to give the readers profound insight on the subject from different points of view. Comprised of short talks and plenary lectures given by leading experts in the field, some of them with brilliant and historic contributions, the book allows the reader to find readable and referenced surveys in topics like f(R) theories, the dark matter and dark energy issues, Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) scenarios, f(T) theories, scalar-tensor theories derived from non-Riemannian geometries, emergent universes, the cosmological constant and other topics of current interest for younger and senior physicists and graduate students.
These proceedings are from the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, held in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, from 20 - 25 May, 2012, was sponsored by ICTP- Trieste, Italy and COECyTJAL-Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. This event is a series of scientific meetings started in 2004 in Cuba, focusing on current and selected topics in the fields of gravitation and cosmology.
Table of Contents
Part I Modified Theories of Gravity.- Recovering Flat Rotation Curves and Galactic Dynamics from f(R)-gravity.- Nine Years of f(R) Gravity and Cosmology.- A Geometrical Approach to Brans-Dicke Theory.- Gravitational Anomalies Signaling the Breakdown of Classical Gravity.- Part II Cosmology and Dark Energy.- Vector Fields Resembling Dark Energy.- Diameter Angular Distance in Locally Inhomogeneous Models.- Non Singular Origin of the Universe and Its Connection to the Cosmological Constant Problem (CCP).- Tunneling and the Emergent Universe Scheme.- The Scalar Field Dark Matter Model: A Brief Review.- Why We Need Dark Energy.- Non-spherical Voids: The Best Alternative to Dark Energy?.- Finding New Signature Effects on Galactic Dynamics to Constrain Bose-Einstein-condensed Cold Dark Matter.- Inhomogeneous and Interacting Vacuum Energy.- Part III Other Topics.- Relativistic Dust Thin Disks with Halo and Magnetic Field.- Tomographic Representation of Quantum and Classical Cosmology.
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