Accelerated Cosmic Expansion (eBook)

Prof. Claudia Moreno González earned her PhD from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico City. She held a postdoctoral position at Penn State University from 2001-2002, and then a fellowship at the University of Texas from 2002-2003. She is a member of the National Research System in Mexico and is a reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Physics. Currently, González is a professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Prof. José Edgar Madriz Aguilar earned his PhD in physics from the Institute of Physics and Mathematics at the Universidad Michoacána de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, in Morelia, México. He held a postdoctoral position at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba in Brazil, then at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Argentina, and finally at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. Prof. Madriz Aguilar has more than 30 refereed journal publications and is a member of the National Research System in Mexico. He is a guest editor of the journal Advances in High Energy Physics and a professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Prof. Luz Marina Reyes Barrera earned her PhD from the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. She held a postdoctoral position in the mathematics department at the Universidad de Guadalajara and was then granted a fellowship by Conacyt-Mexico for research activities equivalent to the National Research System members. She is a reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Physics and is currently a professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Part I Modified Theories of Gravity.- Recovering Flat Rotation Curves and Galactic Dynamics from f(R)-gravity.- Nine Years of f(R) Gravity and Cosmology.- A Geometrical Approach to Brans-Dicke Theory.- Gravitational Anomalies Signaling the Breakdown of Classical Gravity.- Part II Cosmology and Dark Energy.- Vector Fields Resembling Dark Energy.- Diameter Angular Distance in Locally Inhomogeneous Models.- Non Singular Origin of the Universe and Its Connection to the Cosmological Constant Problem (CCP).- Tunneling and the Emergent Universe Scheme.- The Scalar Field Dark Matter Model: A Brief Review.- Why We Need Dark Energy.- Non-spherical Voids: The Best Alternative to Dark Energy?.- Finding New Signature Effects on Galactic Dynamics to Constrain Bose-Einstein-condensed Cold Dark Matter.- Inhomogeneous and Interacting Vacuum Energy.- Part III Other Topics.- Relativistic Dust Thin Disks with Halo and Magnetic Field.- Tomographic Representation of Quantum and Classical Cosmology.