Speaker
Jorge Páramos
(Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto)
Description
We examine an extension of General Relativity with an explicit non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. The purpose of this work is to present an overview of the implications of the latter to various contexts, ranging from astrophysical matter distributions to a cosmological setting. Various results are discussed, including the im- pact of this non-minimal coupling on the choice of Lagrangian density, on a mechanism to mimic galactic and cluster dark matter, on the possibility of accounting for the ac- celerated expansion of the Universe, energy density fluctuations and modifications to post-inflationary reheating, and the equivalence between this model and multi-scalar-theories.
Primary author
Jorge Páramos
(Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto)
Co-author
Prof.
Orfeu Bertolami
(Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto)
