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020			_a9783030837143
082			_a530 SAR-E
100			_aedited by Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
245			_aModified gravity and cosmology : _ban update by the CANTATA network / _cedited by Emmanuel N. Saridakis and others
260			_aSwitzerland _bSpringer _c2021
300			_a629 p.
365			_aINR _b15909.00.
500			_aWith a focus on modified gravity this book presents a review of the recent developments in the fields of gravity and cosmology, presenting the state of the art, high-lighting the open problems, and outlining the directions of future research. General Relativity and the ΛCDM framework are currently the standard lore and constitute the concordance paradigm of cosmology. Nevertheless, long-standing open theoretical issues, as well as possible new observational ones arising from the explosive development of cosmology in the last two decades, offer the motivation and lead a large amount of research to be devoted in constructing various extensions and modifications. In this review all extended theories and scenarios are first examined under the light of theoretical consistency, and are then applied in various geometrical backgrounds, such as the cosmological and the spherical symmetric ones. Their predictions at both the background and perturbation levels, and concerningcosmology at early, intermediate and late times, are then confronted with the huge amount of observational data that astrophysics and cosmology has been able to offer in the last two decades. Theories, scenarios and models that successfully and efficiently pass the above steps are classified as viable and are candidates for the description of Nature, allowing readers to get a clear overview of the state of the art and where the field of modified gravity is likely to go. This work was performed in the framework of the COST European Action “Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions” - CANTATA.
650			_aCosmophysics
650			_aGeneral relativity
650			_aTheories of gravity
650			_aRelativistic effects
650			_aGravitational waves
700			_aLazkoz, Ruth
700			_aSalzano, Vincenzo
700			_aMoniz, Paulo Vargas
700			_aCapozziello, Salvatore
700			_aJimenez, Jose Beltran
700			_aDe Laurentis, Mariafelicia
700			_aOlma, Gonzalo J.
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