Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical
gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between
gravitation and high energy physics still remain open. The purpose
of this thesis is to explore quantum gravity and its
phenomenological consequences for dark matter, gravitational waves
and inflation. A new formalism to classify gravitational theories
based on their degrees of freedom is introduced and, in light of
this classification, it is argued that dark matter is no different
from modified gravity. Gravitational waves are shown to be damped
due to quantum degrees of freedom. The consequences for
gravitational wave events are also discussed. The non-minimal
coupling of the Higgs boson to gravity is studied in connection
with Starobinsky inflation and its implications for the vacuum
instability problem is analyzed.
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