Description
Book SynopsisThis book discusses theoretical predictions and their comparison with experiments of extended and modified classical and quantum theories of gravity. The goal is to provide a readable access and broad overview over different approaches to the topic to graduate and PhD students as well as to young researchers. The book presents both, theoretical and experimental insights and is structured in three parts. The first addresses the theoretical models beyond special and general relativity such as string theory, Poincare gauge theory and teleparallelism as well as Finsler gravity. In turn, the second part is focused on the observational effects that these models generate, accounting for tests and comparisons which can be made on all possible scales: from the universe as a whole via binary systems, stars, black holes, satellite experiments, down to laboratory experiments at micrometer and smaller scales. The last part of this book is dedicated to quantum systems and gravity, showing tests of classical gravity with quantum systems, and coupling of quantum matter and gravity.
Table of ContentsPart 1:
Theoretical Models beyond special and general relativity
Section 1: Aspects of Lorentz invariance violations (Authors: Nick Mavromatos, Luci Menendez-Pidal De Cristina)
Section 2: Deformed relativistic symmetry principles (Authors: Giulia Gubitosi, Michele Arzano, Javier Relancio)
Section 3: Modified gravity - Poincare gauge theory and teleparallelism (Authors: Yuri Obukhov, Manuel Hohmann)
Section 4: Aspects of Finsler gravity and modified dispersion relations in theory and observation (Authors: Volker Perlick, Jean-Francois Gliecenstein)
Part 2:
Observational effects beyond special and general relativity
Section 1: Cosmic searches for Lorentz invariance violations (Authors: Tomislav Terzic, Carloes de los Heros)
Section 2: Compact Objects (Authors: Jutta Kunz, Elisa Maggio, Yakov Shnir, Carlos Herdeiro, Aneta Wojnar)
Section 3: Testing classical gravity (Authors: Eva Hackmann, Lijing Shao, Sven Herrmann)
Section 4: Testing gravity and the standard model at short distance: The Casimir effect (Authors: Galina L. Klimchitskaya, Vladimir Mostepanenko)
Part 3:
Quantum Systems and Gravity
Section 1: Testing Classical Gravity with Quantum Systems (Authors: Sven Herrmann)
Section 2: Quantum Gravity in the Lab (Authors: Dennis Raetzel, Annupam Mazumdar, Hendrik Ulbricht)
Section 3: Coupling Quantum Matter and Gravity (Authors: Andre Grossardt, Jan-Willem van Holten, Philip Schwartz , Domenico Giulini)
