Modified Theories of Gravity: Traversable Wormholes

Abstract

This MSc thesis is divided in to two parts. The first, covers the foundations of theories of gravitation, and, the second incorporates original work on the subject of the existence of traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity. A short incursion in the field of scalar-tensor theories had to be made, owing to an apparent inconsistency in the result previously found.

MSc thesis, 82 pages, 7 figures

References in corpus (12)

• Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
• Dynamics of dark energy
• The Cosmological Constant
• Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics?
• Wormhole geometries in f(R) modified theories of gravity
• Accelerating universe from F(T) gravity
• Spherically symmetric solutions of modified field equations in f(R) theories of gravity
• Solar system constraints on f(G) gravity models
• The dark side of gravity: Modified theories of gravity
• General class of vacuum Brans-Dicke wormholes
• The Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem in alternative gravity
• Cosmological perturbation in f(R,G) theories with a perfect fluid

Cited by in corpus (4)

• f(T) teleparallel gravity and cosmology
• Accelerating universe from F(T) gravity
• Wormholes in viable $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity and Weak Energy Condition
• On Wormhole Throats in $f(R)$ Gravity Theory