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TL;DR: The extent to which precision distance-redshift observations can map out the recent expansion history of the universe, including the acceleration-deceleration transition, and the components and equations of state of the energy density is examined.
Abstract: Exploring the recent expansion history of the universe promises insights into the cosmological model, the nature of dark energy, and potentially clues to high energy physics theories and gravitation. We examine the extent to which precision distance-redshift observations can map out the history, including the acceleration-deceleration transition, and the components and equations of state of the energy density. We consider the ability to distinguish between various dynamical scalar field models for the dark energy, as well as higher dimension and alternate gravity theories. Finally, we present a new, advantageous parametrization for the study of dark energy.
2,003 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time acceleration era.
1,950 citations
01 Mar 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, Weinberg et al. present a survey of the history of the field of quantum physics and its application to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations.
Abstract: List of contributors Preface 1. An introductory survey S. W. Hawking and W. Israel 2. The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment C. M. Will 3. Gravitational-radiation experiments D. H. Douglass and V. B. Braginsky 4. The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity A. E. Fischer and J. E. Marsden 5. Global structure of spacetimes R. Geroch and G. T. Horowitz 6. The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes B. Carter 7. An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations S. Chandrasekhar 8. Black hole astrophysics R. D. Blandford and K. S. Thorne 9. The big bang cosmology - enigmas and nostrums R. H. Dicke and P. J. E. Peebles 10. Cosmology and the early universe Ya B. Zel'dovitch 11. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies M. A. H. MacCallum 12. Singularities and time-asymmetry R. Penrose 13. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime G. W. Gibbons 14. Quantum gravity: the new synthesis B. S. DeWitt 15. The path-integral approach to quantum gravity S. W. Hawking 16. Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation S. Weinberg References Index.
1,911 citations
TL;DR: Four-dimensional covariant nonlinear theories of massive gravity are constructed which are ghost-free in the decoupling limit to all orders, and the Hamiltonian constraint is maintained at least up to and including quartic order in nonlinearities, hence excluding the possibility of the Boulware-Deser ghost up to this order.
Abstract: We construct four-dimensional covariant nonlinear theories of massive gravity which are ghost-free in the decoupling limit to all orders. These theories resum explicitly all the nonlinear terms of an effective field theory of massive gravity. We show that away from the decoupling limit the Hamiltonian constraint is maintained at least up to and including quartic order in nonlinearities, hence excluding the possibility of the Boulware-Deser ghost up to this order. We also show that the same remains true to all orders in a similar toy model.
1,909 citations
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16 Aug 1979
TL;DR: In this article, Weinberg et al. present a survey of the history of the field of quantum physics and its application to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations.
Abstract: List of contributors Preface 1. An introductory survey S. W. Hawking and W. Israel 2. The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment C. M. Will 3. Gravitational-radiation experiments D. H. Douglass and V. B. Braginsky 4. The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity A. E. Fischer and J. E. Marsden 5. Global structure of spacetimes R. Geroch and G. T. Horowitz 6. The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes B. Carter 7. An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations S. Chandrasekhar 8. Black hole astrophysics R. D. Blandford and K. S. Thorne 9. The big bang cosmology - enigmas and nostrums R. H. Dicke and P. J. E. Peebles 10. Cosmology and the early universe Ya B. Zel'dovitch 11. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies M. A. H. MacCallum 12. Singularities and time-asymmetry R. Penrose 13. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime G. W. Gibbons 14. Quantum gravity: the new synthesis B. S. DeWitt 15. The path-integral approach to quantum gravity S. W. Hawking 16. Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation S. Weinberg References Index.
1,806 citations