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PHYS750 MODIFIED THEORIES OF GRAVITY

Course Code: 2300750
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Physics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Principles of Einsteins gravity theory, massive gravity, higher order derivative gravity theories, perturbation methods in modified GR theories, vacua of modified GR theories, scattering amplitudes in higher order derivative gravity, Born-Infeld (BI) type gravity theories, unitarity of BI theories.