Relativity Best post-grad textbooks on modified theories of gravity?

[binbagsss]

Suitable for a student who has a background in undergrad general relativity.

Many thanks

 

[dextercioby]

What do you mean by „modified theories of gravity” exactly? What exactly out of GR did you learn in school?

 

[mpresic]

You may be thinking of Modified Newtonian Dynamics also known as MOND, rather than "modified theory of gravity". I think the term MOND or modified Newtonian dynamics, is higher regarded than modified theory of gravity. I do not know any textbooks on MOND off-hand, but there may be a few

 

[vanhees71]

Why should one write one since this speculation is ruled out by observations, as far as I know?

 

[George Jones]

I, too, am unsure as to what binbags wants, but I don't think that it is MOND. A possibility is "Beyond Einstein Gravity: A Survey of Gravitational Theories for Cosmology and Astrophysics" by Capozziello and Faraoni, which emphasizes f(R) theories of gravity,
https://www.amazon.com/dp/9400701640/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Also there is "Classical and Quantum Cosmology" by Calcagni,
https://www.amazon.com/dp/331941125X/?tag=pfamazon01-20

This book has a brief survey of various theories of gravity in the last few sections of chapter 7, and then devotes a number of chapters to approaches to quantum gravity and quantum cosmology.

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