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Detections of gravitational wave (GW) stimulate the discussion of how GWs propagate in the expanding Universe. General relativity predicts that GWs are massless and propagate at the speed of light with no extra friction term, which relates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-26 S. X. Tian , Zong-Hong Zhu

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Inspired by quantum gravitational physics, the approach of non-commutative (NC) phase space leads to a modified dispersion relation of gravitational waves. This feature, if applied to the very early universe, gives rise to a modified power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Wang

In the measurements of cosmic microwave background polarizations, three frequency channels are necessary for discriminating the primordial B-modes from the polarized dust and the synchrotron emission. We carry out an optimistic estimate on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 Qing-Guo Huang , Sai Wang

A tensor-type cosmological perturbation, defined as a transverse and traceless spatial fluctuation, is often interpreted as the gravitational waves. While decoupled from the scalar-type perturbations in linear order, the tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh

Density perturbations in the cosmic microwave background within general $f(R,\phi)$ models of gravity are investigated. The general dynamical equations for the tensor and scalar modes in any $f(R,\phi)$ gravity model are derived. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Fayçal Hammad

Scalar polarization modes of gravitational waves, which are often introduced in the context of the viable extension of gravity, have been actively searched. However, couplings of the scalar modes to the matter are strongly constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Hiroki Takeda , Yusuke Manita , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

Most of the information on our cosmos stems from either late-time observations or the imprint of early-time inhomogeneities on the cosmic microwave background. We explore to what extent early modifications of gravity, which become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-10 Nelson A. Lima , Vanessa Smer-Barreto , Lucas Lombriser

In standard inflationary cosmology, scalar and tensor perturbations grew as the Universe expanded and froze when their wavelengths exceeded the Hubble horizon, producing a tell-tale signature in the fluctuation spectrum and amplitude of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-21 Fulvio Melia

At the linear level, the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum predicted by inflation, and many of its alternatives, can have arbitrarily small amplitude and consequently an unconstrained tilt. However, at second order, tensor fluctuations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Ido Ben-Dayan , Brian Keating , David Leon , Ira Wolfson

In this Letter we constrain for the first time both cosmology and modified gravity theories conjointly, by combining the GW and electromagnetic observations of GW170817. We provide joint posterior distributions for the Hubble constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer , M. Barsuglia

We have taken a modified version of the Einstein Hilbert action, $ f(R, T^\phi) $ gravity under consideration, where $T^\phi$ is the energy-momentum tensor trace for the scalar field under consideration. The structural behaviour of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We present a fully covariant and gauge-invariant analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity. Working within the 1+3 formalism, we derive the exact propagation equations for scalar, vector, and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Peter K. S. Dunsby , Maria-Alexia Caldis , Eduardo Bittencourt

Massive bigravity, a theoretically consistent modification of general relativity with an additional dynamical rank two tensor, successfully describes the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe without a cosmological constant. Recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Matthew Johnson , Alexandra Terrana

We study the gravitational waves in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Applying the metric perturbation around a cosmological background, we obtain explicit expressions for the wave equations. It is shown that the speed of the traceless mode is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masahiko Taniguchi

In this work, we investigate the generation and propagation of gravitational waves within a minimal gravitational SME (Standard Model Extension). Starting from the modified graviton dispersion relation derived in the linearized gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

We explore the gravitational waves (GWs) within the framework of the $f(R)$ gravity model represented by $f(R)=R^{1+\delta}/R^\delta_c$ in the weak field approximation. In this scenario, gravitational waves exhibit an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Utkal Keshari Dash , Bal Krishna Yadav , Murli Manohar Verma

Scalar-tensor gravity theories with a nonminimal Gauss-Bonnet coupling typically lead to an anomalous propagation speed for gravitational waves, and have therefore been tightly constrained by multimessenger observations such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-18 José Barrientos , Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello , Cristóbal Corral , Fernando Izaurieta , Perla Medina , Eduardo Rodríguez , Omar Valdivia

In this paper, we study the properties of gravitational waves in the scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory. The polarizations of the gravitational waves are investigated by analyzing the relative motion of the test particles. It is found that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-19 Yunqi Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang

In this paper we study gravitational wave perturbations in a cosmological setting of bigravity which can reproduce the {\Lambda}CDM background and large scale structure. We show that in general gravitational wave perturbations are unstable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer , Pietro Guarato , Mariele Motta