Gif Lectures on Cosmic Acceleration

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.

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

References in corpus (9)

• Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
• Dynamics of dark energy
• The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
• Cosmology and the Fate of Dilatation Symmetry
• Measuring the dark side (with weak lensing)
• Approaches to Understanding Cosmic Acceleration
• Infrared-modified gravities and massive gravitons
• Scale invariance, unimodular gravity and dark energy
• The Averaging Problem in Cosmology

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Dark goo: Bulk viscosity as an alternative to dark energy
• The phenomenological approach to modeling the dark energy
• Hubble parameter data constraints on dark energy
• Solar Chameleons
• Spontaneous symmetry breaking in cosmos: The hybrid symmetron as a dark energy switching device
• Cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy and dark matter in viable models of f(R) gravity
• Lectures on Screened Modified Gravity
• Species, chameleonic strings and the concept of particle