XIth School of Cosmology
  17 - 22 September 2012 at IESC, Cargèse
Gravitational Lenses
their impact in the study of galaxies and
Cosmology

Cosmological and atrophysical applications of vacuum quantum corrections 

Ilya L. SHAPIRO
Departamento de Fisica - ICE, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (BRA)

Seminar


Abstract : The investigation of quantum correction to the action of gravity is a complicated problem, which is not completely resolved yet. At the same time, a set of simple assumptions such as covariance arguments, enable us to write down a general form of the quantum vacuum contributions up to a single free coefficient. It is interesting that the theory with such corrections is capable to explain the rotation curves in different types of galaxies without usual LCDM part. This fact gives some serious background to attempts to create an alternative cosmic concordance model with much smaller amount of WDM and dominating cosmological constant. The study of gravitational lensing in this model looks very promising and interesting task.

Bibliography

  • Main publications
    • Davi C. Rodrigues, Patricio S. Letelier, Ilya L. Shapiro,
      Galaxy rotation curves from General Relativity with quantum corrections.

      JCAP 04 (2010) 020; DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/020; arXiv: 0911.4967.

    • Javier Grande, Joan Sola, Julio C. Fabris, Ilya L. Shapiro,
      Cosmic perturbations with running G and Lambda.

      Class. Quantum Grav. 27 (2010) 105004 (29pp).
      arXiv:1001.0259
    • Julio C. Fabris, Ilya L. Shapiro and Alan M. Velasquez-Toribio,
      Testing DM warmness and quantity via the RRG model.

      Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 023506; arXiv:1105.2275

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