Search for dissertations about: "de Sitter"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 205 swedish dissertations containing the words de Sitter.
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1. Explorations of University Physics in Abstract Contexts : From de Sitter Space to Learning Space
Abstract : This is a thesis which contributes to research in two different fields: theoretical physics and physics education research. The common link between these two research areas is that both involve explorations of abstract physics and mathematical representations, but from different perspectives. READ MORE
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2. New horizons in string theory : bubble babble in search of darkness
Abstract : It was discovered nearly two decades ago that we live in an accelerating universe that is dominated by dark energy. Understanding the origin of such an energy has turned out to be a very difficult open question in physics, and calls on the need for a fundamental theory like string theory. READ MORE
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3. Vacua in String Theory : de Sitter Space and Stability in Flux Compactifications
Abstract : Our understanding of cosmology has evolved radically in the last decades. Current models demand the presence of dark energy in our universe and the most favored candidate behind this component is a small positive cosmological constant that characterizes a de Sitter (dS) spacetime. READ MORE
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4. String Theory at the Horizon : Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and Cosmology
Abstract : String theory is a unified framework for general relativity and quantum mechanics, thus being a theory of quantum gravity. In this thesis we discuss various aspects of quantum gravity for particular systems, having in common the existence of horizons. READ MORE
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5. Studies on boundary values of eigenfunctions on spaces of constant negative curvature
Abstract : This thesis consists of two papers on the spectral geometry of locally symmetric spaces of Riemannian and Lorentzian signature. Both works are concerned with the idea of relating analysis on such spaces to structures on their boundaries.The first paper is motivated by a conjecture of Patterson on the Selberg zeta function of Kleinian groups. READ MORE