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The Effective Action Formalism for Cosmological Perturbations

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Generalized Perturbations in Modified Gravity and Dark Energy

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The standard model of cosmology uses General Relativity (GR) to describe gravitational interactions, an homogeneous/isotropic FRW metric to describe the geometry and matter content of cold dark matter (CDM)/photons/baryons to describe its constituents. Observations of the cosmic microwave background, supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, gravitational lensing and structure formation point to the existence of an additional component dubbed “dark energy”, or a modification to gravity, which needs to be introduced to explain the the observed acceleration [1–5].

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Pearson, J. (2014). The Effective Action Formalism for Cosmological Perturbations. In: Generalized Perturbations in Modified Gravity and Dark Energy. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01210-0_2

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