Compact objects in modified gravity: junction conditions and other viability criteria

The purpose of this Thesis is to improve our understanding of the strong-field regime of gravitational interactions, where deviations from the theory of General Relativity (GR) are expected to be found on theoretical grounds. In particular, our investigations have been concerned with the formulation...

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Autor: Casado Turrión, Adrián
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/103153
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103153
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:531.5(043.2)
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Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:The purpose of this Thesis is to improve our understanding of the strong-field regime of gravitational interactions, where deviations from the theory of General Relativity (GR) are expected to be found on theoretical grounds. In particular, our investigations have been concerned with the formulation and application of junction conditions (which govern stellar collapse, black-hole formation and the dynamics of more exotic compact objects), as well as with other viability criteria necessary for modified gravity theories and their solutions to be physically admissible (such as stability or the avoidance of singularities). We will concentrate on two paradigmatic modifications of GR, namely, f (R) theories (specially on the metric formulation) and the ghost-free sub-class of Poincaré Gauge Gravity...