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Beyond Einstein: An assessment of higher curvature gravity,

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Sudipta Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
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The Einstein-Hilbert action is the simplest possible generally covariant action for gravity. While Einstein's equations conform with all observational data, theoretical considerations suggest the possibility to add higher curvature correction terms to Einstein's theory.

From Hubble to Bubble - gravitational waves from phase transitions after inflation

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Andreas Mantziris (University of Porto)
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The prospect of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the primordial universe offers a promising new window for cosmology and fundamental physics.

Numerical evolution of well-posed field theories with anisotropic scaling

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Marcelo Rubio (SISSA, Trieste)
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Dynamical equations exhibiting an anisotropic scaling between space 
and time admit a dispersive nature, as they contain higher-order spatial derivatives, 
but remain second order in time.

Signatures of domain wall networks: from gravitational waves to primordial black holes

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Ricardo Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
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The Domain Wall (DW) problem is the fact that DW networks that result from the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries tend to dominate the universe's energy budget.
However, if the symmetry is not exact the network annihilates and the problem turns into a virtue, as the network tends to be an abundant component before its collapse, and is thus easier to probe.