Modified Theories of Gravity: Traversable Wormholes

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This MSc thesis is divided in to two parts.

• The first, covers the foundations of theories of gravitation, and, the second incorporates original work on the subject of the existence of traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity.
• A short incursion in the field of scalar-tensor theories had to be made, owing to an apparent inconsistency in the result previously found.