@article{1453852,
      recid = {1453852},
      author = {Cunillera, Francesc,},
      title = {Dark energy : from EFTs to supergravity /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) :},
      note = {Doctoral thesis accepted by University of Nottingham,  Nottingham, UK.},
      abstract = {This book addresses supergravity and  supergravity-motivated effective field theories in the  context of cosmological model building. Extracting  information about quintessence from string theory has  attracted much attention in the past few years. The  question became more urgent very recently after the  possibility of obtaining de Sitter space was called into  question. Therefore, there is an interesting debate as to  whether de Sitter space or, even, quintessence can be  derived from a fundamental theory, string theory or  otherwise. This is a very active field of research, and the  topics covered in the book render this work very timely.  Throughout the book, special care has been taken in  demonstrating historical relevance of the field and  describing the set of open questions motivating the  state-of-the-art research. The first few chapters in each  part provide a detailed review of standard perturbative and  non-perturbative techniques in supergravity model building,  as a way to prepare the reader for the more technical and  original subsequent chapters. These early chapters also  represent a self-contained review that would be useful for  anyone planning to enter this challenging area of study.  The subsequent chapters detail research in  supergravity-motivated effective field theories, in the  first part, and supergravity models, in the second part.  One of the important conclusions in this book is that  modelling quintessence in perturbative string theory is at  least as challenging as modelling de Sitter, placing the  wider programme on a collision course with observations.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1453852},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21468-4},
}