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We present a detailed investigation of the properties of the galactic rotation curves in the Weyl geometric gravity model, in which the gravitational action is constructed from the square of the Weyl curvature scalar, and of the strength of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 Maria Crăciun , Tiberiu Harko

A problem in general relativity is, how the gravitational field can transfer energy and momentum between different distant places. The issue is that matter stress tensor is locally conserved, with no explicit interaction with the free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Rituparno Goswami , George F. R. Ellis

We consider non-local Integral Kernel Theories of Gravity in a homogeneous and isotropic universe background as a possible scenario to drive the cosmic history. In particular, we investigate the cosmological properties of a gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-02 Salvatore Capozziello , Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo

We analyze a theory with non-minimal matter-curvature coupling, considering non-metricity properties with a Weyl connection. This model has the advantage of an extra force term which can mimic dark matter and dark energy, and simultaneously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Lima , C. Gomes

Nonlocal models of cosmology might derive from graviton loop corrections to the effective field equations from the epoch of primordial inflation. Although the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism would automatically produce causal and conserved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

A nonlocal form of the effective gravitational action could cure the unboundedness of euclidean gravity with Einstein action. On sub-horizon length scales the modified gravitational field equations seem compatible with all present tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Wetterich

A modified form of non-locally corrected theory of gravity is investigated in the context of cosmology and the Newtonian limit. This form of non-local correction to classic Einstein-Hilbert action can be locally represented by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Dao-Jun Liu , Bin Yang , Xing-Hua Jin

This is a brief review of modified gravity cosmologies. Generically extensions of gravity action involve higher derivative terms, which can result in ghosts and instabilities. There are three ways to circumvent this: Chern-Simons terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-24 Tomi S. Koivisto

We investigate the revised Deser-Woodard model of nonlocal gravity involving four auxiliary scalar fields, introduced to explain the standard cosmological background expansion history without fine-tuning issues. In particular, we simplify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Rocco D'Agostino , Vittorio De Falco

Weyl gravity has been advanced in the recent past as an alternative to General Relativity (GR). The theory has had some success in fitting galactic rotation curves without the need for copious amounts of dark matter. To check the viability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 A. Edery , M. B. Paranjape

Lorentz violation is motivated by quantum gravity and it is generically described by nondynamical tensors. In this work a Lorentz violating extension of general relativity is studied where a nondynamical tensor couples to the Weyl tensor. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-30 Yuri Bonder , Christian Peterson

We study exact solutions of the infinite derivative gravity with null radiation which belong to the class of almost universal Weyl type III/N Kundt spacetimes. This class is defined by the property that all rank-2 tensors ${B_{ab}}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ivan Kolář , Tomáš Málek , Anupam Mazumdar

This work wants to show how standard General Relativity (GR) is able to explain galactic rotation curves without the need for dark matter, this starting from the idea that when Einstein's equations are applied to the dynamics of a galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-16 Elias A. S. Mégier

The huge amounts of undetected and exotic dark matter and dark energy needed to make general relativity work on large scales argue that we should investigate modifications of gravity. The only stable, metric-based and invariant alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 R. P. Woodard

In this paper, a noncommutative gravitational theory is constructed by applying Moyal deformation quantization and the Seiberg-Witten map to teleparallel gravity, a classical gravitational theory, as a gauge theory of local translational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-20 Ryouta Matsuyama , Michiyasu Nagasawa

We present a class of modified-gravity theories which we call ultra-local models. We add a scalar field, with negligible kinetic terms, to the Einstein-Hilbert action. We also introduce a conformal coupling to matter. This gives rise to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philippe Brax , Luca Alberto Rizzo , Patrick Valageas

The question of building a local diff-invariant effective gravitational action for the trace anomaly is reconsidered. General Relativity (GR) combined with the existing action for the trace anomaly is an inconsistent low energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Gregory Gabadadze

We present a general covariant action for massive gravity merging together a class of "non-polynomial" and super-renormalizable or finite theories of gravity with the non-local theory of gravity recently proposed by Jaccard, Maggiore and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-08 Leonardo Modesto , Shinji Tsujikawa

We transcribe into the framework of the torsionful version of the {\epsilon}-formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden the world definition of the Weyl tensor for a curved spacetime that occurs in the realm of Einstein-Cartan's theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 J. G. Cardoso

In the multiscalar-metric frameworks, the issues of the vacuum energy/cosmological constant (CC) screening due to the Weyl-scale enhancement of the Diff gauge symmetry, along with emergence of the massive dark gravity components through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Yury F. Pirogov