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In the light of recent experimental and theoretical data, we go back to the studies tackled in previous publications [1] and develop some of their consequences. Some of their main aspects will be studied in further detail. Yet this text…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Joseph Levy

We consider a general class of vector-tensor theories of gravity and show that solutions with accelerated expansion and a future type III singularity are a common feature in these models. We also show that there are only six vector-tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

A novel, interesting class of scalar-tensor gravity theories is those with a limit on the field motion, where the scalar field either goes to a constant acceleration or stops accelerating and goes to a constant velocity. We combine these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Eric V. Linder

This paper continues the development of a discrete space-time concept that is recently used in the explanation of the cosmological constant. Instead of order estimation, a more theoretical treatment of the theory is introduced. Based on the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Mok

"Einstein-aether" theory is a generally covariant theory of gravity containing a dynamical preferred frame. This article continues an examination of effects on the motion of binary pulsar systems in this theory, by incorporating effects due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Brendan Z. Foster

We consider a theory of gravity with a hidden extra-dimension and metric-dependent torsion. A set of physically motivated constraints are imposed on the geometry so that the torsion stays confined to the extra-dimension and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Karthik H. Shankar , Anand Balaraman , Kameshwar C. Wali

This work concerns the loss of energy of a material system due to gravitational radiation in Einstein-aether theory-an alternative theory of gravity in which the metric couples to a dynamical, timelike, unit-norm vector field. Derived to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Brendan Z. Foster

We consider various curious features of general relativity, and relativistic field theory, in two spacetime dimensions. In particular, we discuss: the vanishing of the Einstein tensor; the failure of an initial-value formulation for vacuum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Samuel C. Fletcher , John Byron Manchak , Mike D. Schneider , James Owen Weatherall

This article examines how the physical presence of field energy and particulate matter can be interpreted in terms of the topological properties of space-time. The theory is developed in terms of vector and matrix equations of exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-10 R. M. Kiehn

We use a dynamical systems analysis to investigate the future behaviour of Einstein-Aether cosmological models with a scalar field coupling to the expansion of the aether and a non-interacting perfect fluid. The stability of the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Patrik Sandin , Bassemah Alhulaimi , Alan Coley

A certain vector-tensor (VT) theory of gravitation was tested in previous papers. In the background universe, the vector field of the theory has a certain energy density, which is appropriate to play the role of vacuum energy (cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-15 Roberto Dale , Màrius J. Fullana , Diego Sáez

The formation of cosmic structures is an important diagnostic for both the dynamics of the cosmological model and the underlying theory of gravity. At the linear level of these structures, certain degeneracies remain between different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Lavinia Heisenberg , Matthias Bartelmann

A gravitational theory with derivative matter coupling is proposed which adopt de Sitter expansion at late times with ordinary baryonic matter. Matter components are conserved separately in the cosmological background and the Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Zahra Haghani , Shahab Shahidi

A modified-gravity-type model of two hypothetical massless vector fields is presented. These vector fields are gravitationally coupled to standard matter and an effective cosmological constant. Considered in a cosmological context, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 V. Emelyanov , F. R. Klinkhamer

The work shows that the associated Einstein like gravity for the Klein-Gordon field shows the spontaneous emergence of the cosmological pressure tensor density (CPTD) that in the classical limit leads to the cosmological constant (CC). Even…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Piero Chiarelli

Over the last few decades, astronomers and cosmologists have accumulated vast amounts of data clearly demonstrating that our current theories of fundamental particles and of gravity are inadequate to explain the observed discrepancy between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Constantinos Skordis

We study relevant cosmological topics in the framework of a certain vector-tensor theory of gravitation (hereafter VT). This theory is first compared with the so-called extended electromagnetism (EE). These theories have a notable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Roberto Dale , Diego Sáez

It has been argued that a Universe governed by Eddington-Born-Infeld gravity can be compatible with current cosmological constraints. The extra fields introduced in this theory can behave both as dark matter and dark energy, unifying the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-02 Máximo Bañados , Pedro G. Ferreira , Constantinos Skordis

The present work deals with Einstein-aether Scalar tensor gravity in the background of homogeneous and isotropic flat FLRW space-time model. The Noether symmetry vector identifies a transformation in the augmented space so that the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Dipanakr Laya , Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

We briefly discuss new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in multidimensional space-times with symmetric connections. We use and generalize Einstein's proposal to specify the space-time geometry by use of the Hamilton principle to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. T. Filippov