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We derive the one-loop beta functions for a theory of gravity with generic action containing up to four derivatives. The calculation is done in arbitrary dimension and on an arbitrary background. The special cases of three, four, near four,…

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We show that the Horava theory for the completion of General Relativity at UV scales can be interpreted as a gauge fixed theory, and it can be extended to an invariant theory under the full group of four-dimensional diffeomorphisms. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias , Konstadinos Sfetsos

We consider theories that modify gravity at cosmological distances, and show that any such theory must exhibit a strong coupling phenomenon, or else it is either inconsistent or is already ruled out by the solar system observations. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gia Dvali

This review presents a comprehensive overview of Myrzakulov gravity, highlighting key developments and significant results shaping the theory. It examines the foundational principles, field equations, and the role of non-metricity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

[abridged] We explore the possibility that the dark matter (DM) component in galaxies may originate fractional gravity. In such a framework, the standard law of inertia continues to hold, but the gravitational potential associated to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Francesco Benetti , Andrea Lapi , Giovanni Gandolfi , Paolo Salucci , Luigi Danese

We employ non-perturbative renormalisation group methods to compute the full momentum dependence of propagators in quantum gravity in general dimensions. We disentangle all different graviton and Faddeev-Popov ghost modes and find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Benjamin Knorr , Marc Schiffer

We perform a non-perturbative analysis of the constraints of the Ho\v{r}ava Gravitational theory. In distinction to Einstein gravity the theory has constraints of the first class together with second class ones. We analyze the consequences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-14 Jorge Bellorín , Alvaro Restuccia , Adrián Sotomayor

A gravity theory without masses can be constructed in Minkowski spaces using a geometric Minkowski potential. The related affine spacelike spheres can be seen as the regions of the Minkowski spacelike vectors characterized by a constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Wladimir-Georges Boskoff , Salvatore Capozziello

We study the cosmological implications of gravity models which break diffeomorphisms (Diff) invariance down to transverse diffeomorphisms (TDiff). We start from the most general gravitational action involving up to quadratic terms in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-02 Antonio G. Bello-Morales , Antonio L. Maroto

In several classes of modified gravity theories, extra degrees of freedom are not completely screened in the interiors of stellar and substellar objects. In such theories, the hydrostatic equilibrium condition inside these objects is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Shaswata Chowdhury

The combination of GR and the Standard Model disagrees with numerous observations on scales from our Solar System up. In the concordance model of cosmology, these contradictions are removed or alleviated by the introduction of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-10 Glenn D. Starkman

We study cosmological perturbations of self-accelerating universe solutions in the recently proposed nonlinear theory of massive gravity, with general matter content. While the broken diffeomorphism invariance implies that there generically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-07 A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Chunshan Lin , Shinji Mukohyama

We describe "small bodies" in a non-metric gravity theory previously studied by this author. The main dynamical field of the theory is a certain triple of two-forms rather than the metric, with only the spacetime conformal structure, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Kirill Krasnov

We analyze the features of the Minkowskian limit of a particular non-analytical f(R) model, whose Taylor expansion in the weak field limit does not hold, as far as gravitational waves (GWs) are concerned. We solve the corresponding Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-24 Donatella Fiorucci , Orchidea Maria Lecian , Giovanni Montani

In the context of ghost-free infinite derivative gravity, we consider the single graviton exchange between two spinless particles, a spinless particle and a photon, or between a spinless particle and a spin-1/2 particle. To this end, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Anupam Mazumdar

Based on certain assumptions for the expectation value of a product of the quantum fluctuating metric at two points, the gravitational and scalar field Lagrangians are evaluated. Assuming a vanishing expectation value of the first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We study the model space generated by the time-dependent operator coefficients in the effective field theory of the cosmological background evolution and perturbations of modified gravity and dark energy models. We identify three classes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-03 Lucas Lombriser , Andy Taylor

We formally discuss the post-Minkowskian limit of $f(R)$-gravity without adopting conformal transformations but developing all the calculations in the original Jordan frame. It is shown that such an approach gives rise, in general, together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Capozziello , A. Stabile , A. Troisi

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

Using the recent observation of gravitational waves (GW) produced by a black-hole merger, we place a lower bound on the energy above which a multifractal spacetime would display an anomalous geometry and, in particular, violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-09 Gianluca Calcagni