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Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The cosmological models based on teleparallel gravity with nonzero torsion are considered. To investigate the evolution of this theory, we consider the phase-space analysis of the $f(T)$ theory. It shows when the tension scalar can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Zhang , Hui Li , Yungui Gong , Zong-Hong Zhu

Teleparallel Gravity offers the possibility of reformulating gravity in terms of torsion by exchanging the Levi-Civita connection with the Weitzenb\"ock connection which describes torsion rather than curvature. Surprisingly, Teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-23 Maria Caruana , Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said

We investigate the cosmological solutions of the $f(T)$ gravity theory using the method of dynamical systems. For this purpose a general form of the $f(T)$ function is considered and four conditions are defined that they have to satisfy in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-12 Behrouz Mirza , Fatemeh Oboudiat

The study addresses matter-coupled modified gravity, particularly $f (T, \mathcal{T})$ gravity, unveiling distinct formalism. The research further discusses stability analysis, and the dynamical system approach, exploring the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 L. K. Duchaniya , Santosh V Lohakare , B. Mishra

The geometrical nature of gravity emerges from the universality dictated by the equivalence principle. In the usual formulation of General Relativity, the geometrisation of the gravitational interaction is performed in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-19 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi S. Koivisto

We generalize tensor-scalar theories of gravitation by the introduction of an abnormally weighting type of energy. This theory of tensor-scalar anomalous gravity is based on a relaxation of the weak equivalence principle that is now…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. -M. Alimi , A. Fuzfa

We analyze the construction of conformal theories of gravity in the realm of teleparallel theories. We first present a family of conformal theories which are quadratic in the torsion tensor and are constructed out of the tetrad field and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-19 J. W. Maluf , F. F. Faria

We investigate the emergence of cosmic hysteresis in cyclic and bouncing cosmologies within the framework of reconstructed $f(T)$ gravity. In contrast to curvature-based modifications of General Relativity, teleparallel gravity attributes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Aritra Sanyal , Praveen Kumar Dhankar , Albert Munyeshyaka , Safiqul Islam , Farook Rahaman , Behnam Pourhassan

A cubic correction of $f(T)$ gravity, where $T$ is the teleparallel scalar torsion, is considered to describe gravity in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model. A scale factor permitting departure from inflation era has been…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 G. G. L. Nashed , W. El Hanafy

Modifications to gravity that add additional functions of the Ricci curvature to the Einstein-Hilbert action -- collectively known as $f(R)$ theories -- have been studied in great detail. When considered as complete theories of gravity they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

In standard approach to cosmological modeling in the framework of general relativity, the energy conditions play an important role in the understanding of several properties of the Universe, including singularity theorems, the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-10 Di Liu , M. J. Reboucas

We show that the f(T) gravitational paradigm, in which gravity is described by an arbitrary function of the torsion scalar, can provide a mechanism for realizing bouncing cosmologies, thereby avoiding the Big Bang singularity. After…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-07 Yi-Fu Cai , Shih-Hung Chen , James B. Dent , Sourish Dutta , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

General relativity and quantum mechanics are conflicting theories. The seeds of discord are the fundamental principles on which these theories are grounded. General relativity, on one hand, is based on the equivalence principle, whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

Modified gravity is one of the most favorable candidates for explaining the current accelerating expansion of the Universe. In this regard, we study the viability of an alternative gravitational theory, namely $f(R,G)$, by imposing energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-30 K. Atazadeh , F. Darabi

The study of cosmological perturbation theory in $f(T)$ gravity is a topic of great interest in teleparallel gravity since this is one of the simplest generalizations of the theory that modifies the teleparallel equivalent of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sebastian Bahamonde , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Manuel Hohmann , Jackson Levi Said , Christian Pfeifer , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Teleparallel gravity offers a path to resolve a number of longstanding issues in general relativity by re-interpreting gravitation as an artifact of torsion rather than curvature. The present work deals with cosmological solutions in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-04 Soumya Chakrabarti , Jackson Levi Said , Kazuharu Bamba

We search for viable f(R) theories of gravity, making use of the equivalence between such theories and scalar-tensor gravity. We find that models can be made consistent with solar system constraints either by giving the scalar a high mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Faulkner , Max Tegmark , Emory F. Bunn , Yi Mao

$f(T,B)$ teleparallel gravity is a recently proposed straightforward generalization of the popular $f(T)$ teleparallel gravity by the incorporation of a boundary term $B=\frac{2}{e}\partial_{i}(e T ^{i}) = \bigtriangledown_{i}T^{i}$ where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Snehasish Bhattacharjee

Recently a class of alternative theories of gravity which goes under the name f(R) gravity, has received considerable attention, mainly due to its interesting applications in cosmology. However, the phenomenology of such theories is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Stefano Liberati