Salvatore Capozziello
Non-local gravity cosmologyAbstract
Recently the so-called Non-Local Gravity acquired a lot of interest as an effective field theory towards the full Quantum Gravity. In this talk, we sketch its main features, discussing, in particular, possible infrared effects at astrophysical and cosmological scales. In particular, we focus on general non-local actions including curvature invariants like the Ricci scalar or torsion scalar. Furthermore, it is possible to fix the form of the Lagrangian and to study the cosmological evolution considering the existence of Noether symmetries. Characteristic lengths and possible new gravitational wave polarizations emerge at cosmological and astrophysical scales. These features can be probed by experiments and observations.
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