Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity [Hardcover]

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity covers all aspects of cosmology in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Considerable progress has been made in this exciting area of physics and this book is the first to provide a critical overview of the research. Among the topics treated are:
-Scalar-tensor gravity and its limit to general relativity,
-Effective energy-momentum tensors and conformal frames,
-Gravitational waves in scalar-tensor cosmology,
-Specific scalar-tensor theories,
-Exact cosmological solutions and cosmological perturbations,
-Scalar-tensor scenarios of the early universe and inflation,
-Scalar-tensor models of quintessence in the present universe and their far-reaching consequences for the ultimate fate of the cosmos.

1. Scalar-Tensor Gravity.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Brans-Dicke theory.- 3 Brans-Dicke cosmology in the Jordan frame.- 4 The limit to general relativity.- 5 Relation to Kaluza-Klein theory.- 6 Brans-Dicke theory from Lyras geometry.- 7 Scalar-tensor theories.- 8 Motivations for scalar-tensor theories.- 9 Induced gravity.- 10 Generalized scalar-tensor theories.- 11 Conformal transformation techniques.- 12 Singularities of the gravitational coupling.- 2. Effective Energy-Momentum Tensors and Conformal Frames.- 1 The issue of the conformal frame.- 2 Effective energy-momentum tensors.- 3. Gravitational Waves.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Einstein frame scalar-tensor waves.- 3 Gravitational lensing by scalar-tensor gravitational waves.- 4. Exact Solutions of Scalar-Tensor Cosmology.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Exact solutions of Brans-Dicke cosmology.- 2.2 K = ?1 solutions and phase space for V = 0.- 2.3 Phase space for any K and V = m2?2/2.- 2.4 Bianchi models.- 3 Exact solutions of scalar-tensor theories.- 5. The Early Universe.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Extended inflation.- 3 Hyperextended inflation.- 4 Real inflation?.- 5 Constraints from primordial nuclel#˜