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Despite the success of dark-matter models, unresolved issues require exploring alternatives such as modified gravity theories. In this context, we examine the compatibility of the Hyperconical Modified Gravity (HMG) with galaxy rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Robert Monjo

In this work, we review a plethora of modified theories of gravity with generalized curvature-matter couplings. The explicit nonminimal couplings, for instance, between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature $R$ and the Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Various theories, such as MOND, MOG, Emergent Gravity and $f(R)$ theories avoid dark matter by assuming a change in General Relativity and/or in Newton's law. Galactic rotation curves are typically described well. Here the application to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Theodorus Maria Nieuwenhuizen

Milgrom's Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) provides an efficient way to summarize phenomenology of galaxies which does not lean on the notion of dark matter; it has great predictive power. Here I briefly review MOND as well as its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Jacob D. Bekenstein

In the past few decades, various versions of modified gravity theories were proposed to mimic the effect of dark matter. Compared with the conventional Newtonian or relativistic dynamics, these theories contain some extra apparent force…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

We set up a vacuum theory of gravity with an extra dimension of vanishing proper length. The most general solution to the field equations are presented. This formulation is free of Kaluza-Klein modes and does not allow the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-26 Sandipan Sengupta

Milgrom has proposed that the appearance of discrepancies between the Newtonian dynamical mass and the directly observable mass in astronomical systems could be due to a breakdown of Newtonian dynamics in the limit of low accelerations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. H. Sanders

The theory of f(R)-gravity is one of the theories of modified Einstein gravity. The vacuum solution, on the other hand, of the field equation is the solution for black hole geometry. We establish here an asymptotically flat rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-07 Arghya Ranjan Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In the first paper in this series we presented a typical set of galactic rotation curves associated with the conformal invariant fourth order theory of gravity which has recently been advanced by Mannheim and Kazanas as a candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip D. Mannheim

A modified-gravity theory is considered with a four-form field strength F, a variable gravitational coupling parameter G(F), and a standard matter action. This theory provides a concrete realization of the general vacuum variable q as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

This work explores modified inertia in the context of galactic dynamics by investigating the consequences of introducing quantum-motivated bounds on acceleration. Building on earlier ideas related to maximal acceleration and quantum speed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Jonathan Gillot

Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has done a great job on accounting for the rotation curves of a variety of galaxies by assuming that Newtonian dynamics breaks down for extremely low acceleration typically found in the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Jun Wang

The widely accepted dark matter hypothesis offers a seductive solution to missing mass problems (galaxies, clusters of galaxies, gravitational collapse in structure formation,...). However the physical nature of the Dark Matter itself is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Etienne Pointecouteau

Globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way have characteristic velocity dispersions that are consistent with the predictions of Newtonian gravity, and may be at odds with Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). We discuss a modified gravity (MOG)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-14 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We investigate the possibility that the behavior of the rotational velocities of test particles gravitating around galaxies can be explained in the framework of modified gravity models with non-minimal matter-geometry coupling. Generally,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-28 T. Harko

Conformal geometry is considered within a general relativistic framework. An invariant distant for proper time is defined and a parallel displacement is applied in the distorted space-time, modifying Einstein's equation appropriately. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Edmund A. Chadwick , Timothy F. Hodgkinson , Graham S. McDonald

MOG is a fully relativistic modified theory of gravity based on an action principle. The MOG field equations are exactly solvable numerically in two important cases. In the spherically symmetric, static case of a gravitating mass, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-25 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

The new information-theoretic Process Physics has shown that space is a quantum foam system with gravity being, in effect, an inhomogeneous in-flow of the quantum foam into matter. The theory predicts that absolute motion with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-14 Reginald T. Cahill

The missing mass problem has not been solved decisively yet. Observations show that if gravity is to be modified, then the MOND theory is its excellent approximation on galactic scales. MOND suggests an adjustments of the laws of physics in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Michal Bílek , Ingo Thies , Pavel Kroupa , Benoit Famaey

According to Mach's principle inertia has its reason in the presence of all masses in the universe. Despite there is a lot of sympathy for this plausible idea, only a few quantitative frameworks have been proposed to test it. In this paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Unzicker