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A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Alexandre Landry , Robert J. van den Hoogen

Realism about general relativity (GR) seems to imply realism about spacetime curvature. The existence of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) calls this into question, for (a) TEGR is set in a torsionful but flat…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Ruward Mulder , James Read

In the last dozen years a wide and variegated mass of observational data revealed that the universe is now expanding at an accelerated rate. In the absence of a well-based theory to interpret the observations, cosmography provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Ester Piedipalumbo , Enrica Della Moglie , Roberto Cianci

Teleparallel gravity and its popular generalization $f(T)$ gravity can be formulated as fully invariant (under both coordinate transformations and local Lorentz transformations) theories of gravity. Several misconceptions about teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 M. Krssak , R. J. van den Hoogen , J. G. Pereira , C. G. Boehmer , A. A. Coley

The $f(T)$ theory is recently proposed to explain the present cosmic accelerating expansion of the universe. $f(T)$ theory is an extension of Teleparallel theory of gravity, where $T$ is the torsion scalar. This paper contains the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 M. Jamil Amir , M. Yussouf

This thesis investigates the characteristics of modified teleparallel gravity models that incorporate a scalar field and a trace of the energy-momentum tensor, with particular attention to their cosmological effects, especially regarding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 L K Duchaniya

Gravitational waves offer a key insight into the viability of classes of gravitational theories beyond general relativity. The observational constraints on their speed of propagation can provide strong constraints on generalized classes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 Shivam Kumar Mishra , Jackson Levi Said , B. Mishra

We study flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models for a scalar field coupled nonminimally to teleparallel gravity with generic coupling and potential functions. The goal of this paper is to determine the conditions under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Laur Jarv , Alexey Toporensky

The late-time acceleration of the universe remains one of the most significant open problems in modern cosmology. Modified gravity frameworks such as $f(T)$ gravity provide a geometric alternative to dark energy by attributing cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Anirudh Pradhan , S. A. Salve , V. B. Raut , S. H. Shekh

General Relativity, despite its century-long success, faces conceptual and observational challenges, including singularities, incompatibility with quantum mechanics, and the need to introduce dark matter and dark energy. Precision cosmology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Sai Swagat Mishra

In this paper, we investigate the energy conditions (including null, weak, strong, dominant) in generalized teleparallel gravities including pure $F(T)$, teleparallel gravity with non-minimally coupled scalar field and $F(T)$ with…

General Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We perform detailed investigation of cosmological perturbations in f(T) theory of gravity coupled with scalar field. Our work emphasizes on the way to gauge fix the theory and we examine all possible modes of perturbations up to second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-24 Keisuke Izumi , Yen Chin Ong

Teleparallel gravity can be seen as a gauge theory for the translation group. As such, its fundamental field is neither the tetrad nor the metric, but a gauge potential assuming values in the Lie algebra of the translation group. This gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

In this work we study the cosmology of the general f(T) gravity theory. We express the modified Einstein equations using covariant quantities, and derive the gauge-invariant perturbation equations in covariant form. We consider a specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-02 Baojiu Li , Thomas P. Sotiriou , John D. Barrow

We investigate the gravitational waves and their properties in various modified teleparallel theories, such as $f(T), f(T,B)$ and $f(T,T_G)$ gravities. We perform the perturbation analysis both around a Minkowski background, as well as in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this article we explore local Lorentz transformations in theories of gravity based on the teleparallel formalism. For the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), the spin connection plays no role in the equations of motion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Alexey Golovnev , Maria-Jose Guzman

In the context of f(R,T) theories of gravity, we study the evolution of scalar cosmological perturbations in the metric formalism. According to restrictions on the background evolution, a specific model within these theories is assumed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-20 F. G. Alvarenga , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , M. J. S. Houndjo , M. E. Rodrigues , D. Sáez-Gómez

In the last century, theoretical and experimental developments have established the General Relativity theory as the most successful theory for describing the gravitational phenomenon. On the other hand, in the last two decades, multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Raja Solanki

In this article, we explore the comprehensive narrative of cosmic evolution within a cosmological framework by utilizing a novel form of gravity known as generalized symmetric teleparallel gravity, denoted as $f(Q,T)$ gravity. Here, $Q$…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Surajit Das , Sanjay Mandal

The article communicates gravitational baryogenesis in non-minimal $f(T)$ gravity and $f(T,B)$ teleparallel gravity where $T$ denote the torsion scalar and $B$ a boundary term. These extended teleparallel theories of gravity differ from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-08 Snehasish Bhattacharjee