Quantum cosmology on Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravitation and other aspects of quantum gravity

• Grant number: 11/12549-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics
• Principal Investigator: Alberto Vazquez Saa
• Grantee: João Paulo Pitelli Manoel
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 07/55449-1 - Physics in curved spacetimes, AP.TEM

Abstract

We will study some aspects of quantum cosmology on the theory of Horava-Lifshitz, for example the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled with a perfect fluid. We will also study the influence that vacuum fluctuations have on the light cone, in a 2-dimensional model of gravitation with a dilaton field. (AU)