Paredes de domínio curvas em gravitação quase-topológica
Extensions of General Relativity, with higher order terms in the curvature, have been used in order to better understand phenomena in scales where quantum effects become important. However, such extensions may produce undesirable effects, as the appearing of “ ghosts” and also equations of order gre...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ufes.br:10/7449 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/7449 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gravitation General Relativity Field theory Gravitação Relatividade geral Teoria de campos Relatividade geral (Física) Teoria de campos (Física) Física 53 |
| Sumario: | Extensions of General Relativity, with higher order terms in the curvature, have been used in order to better understand phenomena in scales where quantum effects become important. However, such extensions may produce undesirable effects, as the appearing of “ ghosts” and also equations of order greater than two, which complicates the Cauchy problem. In this dissertation we study a class of theories, known as Quasi Topological Gravity (QTG) , where these effects , by construction, are circumvented. In particular, we construct exact domain wall type solutions for QTG coupled to a scalar field subject to som potential for the case in which the vacua of the theory are Anti de Sitter (AdS) spaces. Our analysis is performed for an arbitrary dimension d of the space-time making use of an ansatz which considers the slicing of this space in (d-1) hypersurfaces with negative or positive curvature. |
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