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Within the theory of the ghost-free bigravity, we present the most general cosmological solution for which the physical metric is homogeneous and isotropic, while the second metric is inhomogeneous. The solution includes a matter source and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikhail S. Volkov

I consider the longstanding issue of the hermiticity of the Dirac equation in curved spacetime. Instead of imposing hermiticity by adding ad hoc terms, I renormalize the field by a scaling function, which is related to the determinant of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Pasquale Marra

Recently, a new alternative vector theory of gravity has been proposed which assumes that universe has fixed background Euclidean geometry and gravity is a vector field that alters this geometry [Phys. Scr. 92, 125001 (2017)]. It has been…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

Motivated by the apparent dependence of string $\sigma$--models on the sum of spacetime metric and antisymmetric tensor fields, we reconsider gravity theories constructed from a nonsymmetric metric. We first show that all such "geometrical"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Damour , S. Deser , J. McCarthy

In the framework of the theory of scale relativity, we suggest a solution to the cosmological problem of the formation and evolution of gravitational structures on many scales. This approach is based on the giving up of the hypothesis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel da Rocha , Laurent Nottale

We expect the final theory of gravity to have more symmetries than we suspect and our research points in this direction. To start with, standard general coordinate invariance can be extended to complex holomorphic general coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Eduardo Guendelman

We consider spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) solutions of Milgrom's recently proposed class of bimetric theories of gravity. These theories have two different regimes, corresponding to high and low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Timothy Clifton , Thomas G. Zlosnik

Gravity is identical to curved spacetime. It is manifested by the curvature of a Riemannian spacetime in general relativity but by torsion or non-metricity in teleparallel gravity models. In this paper, we apply these multiple options to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Jian Gao , Yuxuan Kang , Mingzhe Li , Yeheng Tong

We consider a higher dimensional gravity theory with a negative kinetic energy scalar field and a cosmological constant. We find that the theory admits an exact cosmological solution for the scale factor of our universe. It has the feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Hong , J. Lee , T. H. Lee , P. OH

In the standard cosmological theory one uses the Einstein concepts of space and time as were originally introduced for the special theory of relativity and the general relativity theory. According to this approach all physical quantities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Carmeli

It is believed that gravity will be explained in the framework of the existing quantum theory when one succeeds in eliminating divergencies at large momenta or small distances (although the phenomenon of gravity has been observed only at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-28 Felix Lev

The paper aims to introduce a new symmetry principle in the space-time geometry through the elimination of the classical idea of rest and by including a universal minimum limit of speed in the subatomic world. Such a limit, unattainable by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Claudio Nassif

We present a consistent relativistic formulation of Mach principle within a geometric theory of gravitation. In this approach, neither inertia nor free fall is assumed a priori. Instead, the motion of any local system arises from its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Enrico Massa , Davide Astesiano

In the Newtonian limit of general relativity force acting on a test mass in a central gravitational field is conventionally defined by the attractive Newtonian gravity (inverse square) term plus a small repulsive cosmological force, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-25 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Theories described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are known to possess strictly positive energy eigenvalues and exhibit unitary time evolution if the Hamiltonian is symmetric under discrete parity and time (PT) transformation. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 Jeffrey Kuntz

We propose a new cosmological framework in which the strength of the gravitational force acted on dark matter at late time can be weaker than that on the standard matter fields without introducing extra gravitational degrees of freedom. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama

The cosmological constant and its phenomenology remain among the greatest puzzles in theoretical physics. We review how modifications of Einstein's general relativity could alleviate the different problems associated with it that result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 The FADE Collaboration , Heliudson Bernardo , Benjamin Bose , Guilherme Franzmann , Steffen Hagstotz , Yutong He , Aliki Litsa , Florian Niedermann

The quantum-field model described by non-Hermitian, but a ${\cal PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonian is considered. It is shown by the algebraic way that the limiting of the physical mass value $m \leq m_{max}= {m_1}^2/2m_2$ takes place for the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 V. N. Rodionov

We give a simple derivation of a cosmological bound on the graviton mass for spatially flat FRW solutions in massive gravity with an FRW reference metric and for bigravity theories. This bound comes from the requirement that the kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Matteo Fasiello , Andrew J. Tolley

A novel theory of Quantum Gravity is presented in which the real gravitons manifest themselves as holes in space. In general, these holes propagate at the speed of light through an expanding universe with boundary denoted by U, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Gregory W. Horndeski