Topics in Cosmology and Gravitation

abstract: Two ideas that extends on the theory of General Relativity are introduced and then the phenomenology they can offer is explored. The first idea shows how certain types of $f(R)$ gravity allows for traversable wormholes among its vacuum solutions. This is surprising to find in such simple s...

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Other Authors: Duplessis, Francis (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44090