Classical, quantum and numerical aspects of modified theories of gravity
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Abstract
In this thesis, we examine some specific aspects of two classes of modified gravity theories: ghostfree infinite-derivative gravity and so-called f (R) gravity.Regarding the former, we consider the four-dimensional theory at the level of the quadratic action and study the single graviton exchange of two massive spin-0 particles.We derive the corresponding gravitational potential energy for the non-static case and show that the quantum correction of the local theory, which is in the form of a Dirac delta function, is smeared out in the non-local theory.It is also shown that the gravitational potential energy associated with the self-interaction of the individual particles is finite.We then examine the quantum gravitational entanglement of two test masses that undergo a spatial splitting that is orthogonal to their separation.For such a set-up, we compute the concurrence and von Neumann entropy for the entanglement and show that an increase in the length scale of nonlocality leads to a decrease in both of the aforementioned quantities.Our attention is then turned to two specific two-dimensional dilaton gravity models; namely the Spherically-Reduced Gravity (SRG) and the Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) theories.The quadratic action for each theory is derived and diagonalised in order to construct ghost-free infinite-derivative modifications.In the case of the SRG theory, we make use of the Schwarzschild-type gauge whereas, for the CGHS theory, we impose the conformal gauge.For each of the two local theories, we construct appropriate source actions that can be used to generate their respective linearised black-hole solutions.We then make use of the same source actions in the linearised non-local theories and obtain non-local modifications to the aforesaid solutions.Lastly, we consider the application of numerical relativity techniques to f (R) gravity models.It is well-known that the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) modification of the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formulation of General Relativity is suitable for the construction of numerical relativity codes.While a BSSN-like formulation for f (R) gravity exists, it is constructed with Cartesian coordinates in mind.In this thesis, we generalise the formalism to accommodate arbitrary coordinates and then impose spherical symmetry.The description of a numerical relativity code for the Starobinsky gravity model based on this formalism is given before considering a number of scenarios.We first perform the evolution of Schwarzschild Einstein-Rosen bridge initial data using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method as well as the evolution of a gauge pulse in flat space using the Partially-Implicit-Runge-Kutta scheme.These two cases serve as tests for our code and our results are compared with those presented in the literature.Then, we perform the evolution of a massless scalar field in the context of the Starobinsky gravity model and show that damped oscillations arise for subcritical simulations.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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