Alguns Aspectos das Teorias de Gravidade Modificada

Abstract

Modifed theories of gravity has the objective to elucidate some open issues in the context of general relativity. From this perspective many theories have been proposed over the years. In this paper we deal with some of these theories and, for each of them, we gave our contribution proposing new scenarios that showed promise. So in the context of braneworld theory we held the first studies in three dimensional DGP theory, with terms of induced gravity of the new massive gravity type. The study of the propagators of disturbed theory showed unit propagation modes without the presence of tachyons. As regards to the Horava-Lifshitz theory, we studied the structure of membranes with scalar fields in 4+1 dimensions and the formation of black holes in 1+1 dimensions has been obtained for the first time. In the two previous cases we deal with nonprojectable version of this theory. Have also studied braneworld models in a bimetric theory where gravity is coupled to the scalar field that connects the two metrics. Although the scalar field having a linear term kinetic the theory remained stable and gravity localization was obtained. Finally, we apply the theory of gravitation with nondynamical fields to a cosmological model and found that for a certain specific stage of the Universe Expansion is possible to have a mechanism that generates a self tuning of the cosmological constant problem.