Quantum corrections to Einstein's equations

Abstract

In this master thesis, the Frobenius power series method is used to find spherically symmetric and static vacuum solutions to quadratic and cubic gravitational actions, representing quantum corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. After a motivation to the topic and an introduction, the power series solutions are presented. After recovering the results for the quadratic action of Stelle and collaborators, we found that when the Weyl cubic operator is present, the (2,2) family of solutions is still present while the Schwarzschid-de Sitter-like (1,-1) is not.