Modified gravity as the origin of dark energy

Recent cosmological observations have suggested that the universe is under- going accelerated expansion. This can not be explained within the framework of General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics, which has been dubbed the dark energy problem. In this thesis, we study the possib...

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Main Author: Zhou, Shuang-Yong
Published: University of Nottingham 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.576542