Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Isolated Objects in Quadratic Gravity : From Action Principles to Observations - Samuele Silvervalle

Isolated Objects in Quadratic Gravity

From Action Principles to Observations

By: Samuele Silvervalle

eText | 10 January 2024

At a Glance

eText

$239.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $59.75 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

One of the main unanswered question of modern Physics is "How does gravity behave at small scales?". The aim of this thesis is to illustrate in a comprehensive but accessible way how to look for deviations from Einstein's theory of General Relativity in this regime, looking at the simplest celestial bodies: static and spherically symmetric ones.

With a conservative and bottom-up approach, at smaller scales the first corrections to the action of General Relativity are generally considered to be terms quadratic in the curvature tensors; while these modifications do not cure the inconsistency between gravity and quantum mechanics, the solutions of this theory are plausible candidates to be the first-order corrections of the classical ones.

Even with such simple modifications, a striking picture emerges from the study of isolated objects: the unique Schwarzschild solution of General Relativity is only a rare bird in the set of solutions, with non-Schwarzschild black holes, wormholes and naked singularities appearing as possible substitutes.

Tailored to graduate students and researchers entering this field, this thesis shows how to construct these new solutions from action principles, how to characterize their metric, how to study their physical properties, such as their stability or Thermodynamics, and how to look for phenomenological signatures.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionSciencePhysicsRelativity PhysicsMathematical PhysicsApplied PhysicsGeophysicsClassical MathematicsGravity

More in Geophysics

Tectonic Geodynamics - Thorsten Becker

eBOOK

Tectonic Geodynamics

eBook

RRP $188.10

$150.99

20%
OFF
GRATITUDE BEYOND THE SPHERE - ALLESHA ALEXANDER

eBOOK

GRATITUDE BEYOND THE SPHERE

eBook

RRP $37.39

$33.99

The Atoms of Space - Balungi Francis

eBOOK

The Atoms of Space

eBook

$0.99

The Atoms of Space - Balungi Francis

eBOOK

The Atoms of Space

eBook

$1.99

Rotational Field Theory - manoranjan ghoshal

eBOOK

Rotational Field Theory

eBook

$9.99

Stratospheric Ozone : A Textbook - Paul A. Newman

eBOOK

Stratospheric Ozone

A Textbook

eBook

RRP $35.19

$31.99

This product is categorised by