The relation between Geometry and Matter in classical and quantum Gravity and Cosmology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-03-19 v2
Abstract
The present thesis is divided into two main research areas: Classical Cosmology and (Loop) Quantum Gravity. The first part concerns cosmological models with one phantom and one scalar field, that provide the `super-accelerated' scenario not excluded by observations, thus exploring alternatives to the standard LambdaCDM scenario. The second part concerns the spinfoam approach to (Loop) Quantum Gravity, which is an attempt to provide a `sum-over-histories' formulation of gravitational quantum transition amplitudes: the research here presented focuses on the face amplitude of a generic spinfoam model for Quantum Gravity.
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@article{arxiv.1104.2910,
title = {The relation between Geometry and Matter in classical and quantum Gravity and Cosmology},
author = {Daniele Regoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2910},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
PhD thesis, 179 pages