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We derive exact Friedmann--Robertson--Walker cosmological solutions in general scalar--tensor gravity theories, including Brans--Dicke gravity, for stiff matter or radiation. These correspond to the long or short wavelength modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Jose P. Mimoso , David Wands

A study of an algorithm method capable to reveal anisotropic solutions of general scalar-tensor gravitation -including non-minimally couplings- is presented. It is found that it is possible to classify the behavior of the field of different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego F. Torres

We study the cosmological model based on Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with non-minimal coupling of a scalar field to a Gauss-Bonnet term in 4D Friedmann universe. We show how constructing the exact solutions by the method based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 Igor V. Fomin , Sergey V. Chervon

We present a scale-invariant theory, conformal gravity, which closely resembles the geometrodynamical formulation of general relativity (GR). While previous attempts to create scale-invariant theories of gravity have been based on Weyl's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Edward Anderson , Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall O'Murchadha

We consider the problem of building inhomogeneous cosmological models in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. This starts by splitting the field equations of these theories into constraint and evolution equations, and then proceeds by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Jessie Durk , Timothy Clifton

We consider cosmological models in scalar tensor theories of gravity that describe an accelerating universe, and we study a family of inverse power law potentials, for which exact solutions of the Einstein equations are known. We also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Demianski , E. Piedipalumbo , C. Rubano , P. Scudellaro

We derive a new parametric class of exact cosmological solutions to Brans-Dicke theory of gravity with a self-interacting scalar field and a barotropic perfect fluid of ordinary matter, by assuming a linear relationship between the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Olga Arias , Israel Quiros

We present the data-driven reconstruction of gravitational theories and Dark Energy models on cosmological scales. We showcase the power of present cosmological probes at constraining these models and quantify the knowledge of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Marco Raveri

We consider the Chiral Cosmological Models (CCMs) and modified gravity theories associated with them. Generalization of the superpotential method for a general CCM with several scalar fields is performed, and the method of construction CCMs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 S. V. Chervon , I. V. Fomin , E. O. Pozdeeva , M. Sami , S. Yu. Vernov

We develop the reconstruction program for the number of modified gravities: scalar-tensor theory, $f(R)$, $F(G)$ and string-inspired, scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The known (classical) universe expansion history is used for the explicit and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Motivated by the newly proposal for gravity as the effect of the torsion scalar $T$ and trace of the energy momentum tensor $\mathcal{T}$,we investigate the cosmological reconstruction of different models of the Universe. Our aim here is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

A new vector-tensor model of classical gravity, which contains coupling between the field strength of the vector field and the curvature tensors in six dimensions, is proposed. Cosmological solutions of the scale factors in this model with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-16 Katsuhiko Yoshida , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

The presence of spinor fields is considered in the framework of some extensions of teleparallel gravity, where the Weitzenb\"ock connection is assumed. Some well known models as the Chaplygin gas and its generalizations are reconstructed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Diego Saez-Gomez , Petr Tsyba

We develop a technique for the reconstruction of the potential for a scalar field in cosmological models based on induced gravity. The potentials reproducing cosmological evolutions driven by barotropic perfect fluids, a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-10 Alexander Y. Kamenshchik , Alessandro Tronconi , Giovanni Venturi

Scalar-tensor gravity is the simplest and best understood modification of general relativity, consisting of a real scalar field coupled directly to the Ricci scalar curvature. Models of this type have self-accelerating solutions. In an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Gabriela Barenboim , Joseph Lykken

We argue that more cosmological solutions in massive gravity can be obtained if the metric tensor and the tensor $\Sigma_{\mu\nu}$ defined by St\"{u}ckelberg fields take the homogeneous and isotropic form. The standard cosmology with matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Yungui Gong

It is accepted by the majority of scientific community that the Universe is currently in an accelerated epoch. In order to explain this shock of late 90's, a lot of dark energy candidates have been proposed. We study in the context of f (R)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Diego Sáez-Gómez

In the bibliography a certain confusion arises in what regards to the classification of the gravitational theories into scalar-tensor theories and general relativity with a scalar field either minimally or non-minimally coupled to matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-27 Israel Quiros , Roberto De Arcia , Ricardo García-Salcedo , Tame Gonzalez , Francisco Antonio Horta-Rangel

In this paper, we explore a reconstruction scheme in the background of the $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory for different cosmological scenarios, where $T$ is the scalar torsion and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 Tuhina Ghorui , Prabir Rudra , Farook Rahaman

In the macroscopic gravity approach to the averaging problem in cosmology, the Einstein field equations on cosmological scales are modified by appropriate gravitational correlation terms. We present exact cosmological solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Coley , N. Pelavas , R. M. Zalaletdinov