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In this paper we place new constraints on a f(R) modified gravity model recently proposed by Hu and Sawicki. After checking that the Hu and Sawicki model produces a viable cosmology, i.e. a matter dominated epoch followed by a late-time…

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In recent years, modifications to General Relativity (GR) have been explored to address cosmological observations, particularly in the context of late-time cosmic acceleration. Among these, modifications based on the Teleparallel Equivalent…

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The accelerated expansion of the Universe remains one of the central open problems in modern cosmology. While the $\Lambda$CDM model successfully describes a wide range of observations, the physical nature of dark energy is still unknown,…

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We present an analysis of an $f(T, \mathcal{T})$ extension of the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity, where $T$ denotes the torsion and $\mathcal{T}$ the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. This extension includes non--minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Diego Saez-Gomez , C. Sofia Carvalho , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Ismael Tereno

Viable models of modified gravity designed to produce cosmic acceleration at the current epoch, closely mimic the $\Lambda$CDM model at the level of background cosmology. However, this degeneracy is generically broken at the level of linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Alessandra Silvestri

We investigate the new observational constraints on $f(T)$ gravity that arise from the effects of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and the BB spectrum. We first show that on the GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this investigation, we perform an observational statistical analysis in the theory of $ f(R, L_m) $ gravity. The proposed theoretical model is based on the Ricci scalar's non-linear contribution. We use a distinct parameterization for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-30 J. K. Singh , Shaily , Akanksha Singh , Harshna Balhara , Joao R. L. Santos

We investigate deviations from $\Lambda$CDM by independently parameterizing modifications in the background evolution and the growth of structures. The background is characterized by two parameters, $A$ and $B$, which reduce to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Shibendu Gupta Choudhury , Purba Mukherjee , Anjan Ananda Sen

We compile a list of $14$ independent measurements of large-scale structure growth rate between redshifts $0.067 \leq z \leq 0.8$ and use this to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-evolving general-relativistic dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anatoly Pavlov , Omer Farooq , Bharat Ratra

We investigate the cosmological perturbations in f(T) gravity. Examining the pure gravitational perturbations in the scalar sector using a diagonal vierbien, we extract the corresponding dispersion relation, which provides a constraint on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Shih-Hung Chen , James B. Dent , Sourish Dutta , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

$f(T)$ cosmology has shown promise in explaining aspects of cosmic evolution. In this work, we analyze constraints on leading models of $f(T)$ gravity in the context of the recently released Pantheon+ data set, together with comparisons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Rebecca Briffa , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

We studied the cosmological constraints on the Galileon gravity obtained from observational data of the growth rate of matter density perturbations, the supernovae Ia (SN Ia), the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Koichi Hirano , Zen Komiya , Hisato Shirai

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

We study a model of Symmetric Teleparallel gravity that is able to account for the current accelerated expansion of the universe without the need for dark energy component. We investigate this model by making use of dynamical system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 José Ferreira , Tiago Barreiro , José P. Mimoso , Nelson J. Nunes

In this paper, we have emphasized the stability analysis of the accelerating cosmological models obtained in $f(T)$ gravity theory. The behavior of the models based on the evolution of the equation of state parameter shows phantom-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 L. K. Duchaniya , Santosh V Lohakare , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

In this work, we investigate the cosmological consequences of an effective $f(Q)$ model emerging from the more general $f(Q,T)$ gravity theory under the special equation-of-state condition $\rho + p = 0$. Under this limit, the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Anil Kumar Yadav , S. H. Shekh , N. Myrzakulov

We use a combination of observational data in order to reconstruct the free function of f(T) gravity in a model-independent manner. Starting from the data-driven determined dark-energy equation-of-state parameter we are able to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Xin Ren , Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

This paper explores models of the FLRW universe that incorporate a time-varying cosmological term $\Lambda(t)$. Specifically, we assume a power-law form for the cosmological term as a function of the scale factor: $\Lambda(t)=\Lambda_{0}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov , J. Rayimbaev

The onset of dark energy domination depends on the particular gravitational theory driving the cosmic evolution. Model independent techniques are crucial to test both the present $\Lambda$CDM cosmological paradigm and alternative theories,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-04 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Orlando Luongo , Lorenzo Reverberi

We establish constraints on $f(T)$ gravity by considering the possibility of a scenario that supports a phantom crossing of the equation of state parameter $\omega_{DE}$. After determining the viable parameter space of the model, while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 F. B. M. dos Santos