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The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe highlighted General Relativity's inability to naturally account for dark energy without invoking a finely tuned cosmological constant. In response, a wide range of alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 P. A. G. Monteiro , C. J. A. P. Martins

The $f(T)$ gravity is one of the extensions of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, in which more general functions of the torsion scalar $T$ can be described. With the proposed functional form of $f(T) = \alpha T - \beta u^{-n} +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Suraj Kumar Behera , S. A. Kadam , Pratik P. Ray , B. Mishra

In this paper, we have explored the field equations of f(T, B) gravity as an extension of teleparallel gravity in an isotropic and homogeneous space time. In the basic formalism developed, the dynamical parameters are derived by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 S. A. Kadam , Jackson Levi Said , B. Mishra

We present a novel reconstruction method of $f(T)$ teleparallel gravity from phenomenological parameterizations of the deceleration parameter or other alternatives. This can be used as a toolkit to produce viable modified gravity scenarios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-29 W. El Hanafy , G. G. L. Nashed

One of the so-called viable modified gravities is analyzed. This kind of gravity theories are characterized by a well behavior at local scales, where General Relativity is recovered, while the modified terms become important at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Diego Sáez-Gómez

Teleparallel gravity is a modified theory of gravity for which the Ricci scalar $R$ of the underlying geometry in the action is replaced by an arbitrary functional form of torsion scalar $T$. In doing so, cosmology in $% f(T)$ gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Sanjay Mandal , Snehasish Bhattacharjee , S. K. J. Pacif , P. K. Sahoo

We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time acceleration era. Particularly, we present the formalism of standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

Using the "teleparallel" equivalent of General Relativity as the gravitational sector, which is based on torsion instead of curvature, we add a canonical scalar field, allowing for a nonminimal coupling with gravity. Although the minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Chao-Qiang Geng , Chung-Chi Lee , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Peng Wu

We construct gravitational modifications that go beyond Horndeski, namely theories with extended nonminimal derivative couplings, in which the coefficient functions depend not only on the scalar field but also on its kinetic energy. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas

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

We review the accelerating (mainly, dark energy) cosmologies in modified gravity. Special attention is paid to cosmologies leading to finite-time future singularities in $F(R)$, $F(G)$ and $\mathcal{F}(R,G)$ modified gravities. The removal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-21 Kazuharu Bamba , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Taking up four model universes we study the behaviour and contribution of dark energy to the accelerated expansion of the universe, in the modified scale covariant theory of gravitation. Here, it is seen that though this modified theory may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-28 Koijam Manihar Singh , Sanjay Mandal , Longjam Parbati Devi , P. K. Sahoo

It has been recently proposed that gravity might be an entropic force. Although a well defined fundamental description for such a mechanism is still lacking, it is still possible to address the viability of phenomenological models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Miguel Zumalacarregui

All observational evidence for dark matter and dark energy is so far exclusively gravitational. Hence, the dark sector may be equivalently described by a theory of the spacetime metric whose dynamics is affected by interactions with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Santiago Agüí Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Lennard Dufner , Enrico Pajer

We discuss conformal issues of pure and extended teleparallel gravity. In particular, we present formulations of conformal transformation in teleparallel gravity. Furthermore, we propose conformal scalar and gauge field theories in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-19 Kazuharu Bamba , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Gómez

It is investigated the cosmological dynamics of scalar-torsion $f(T,\phi)$ gravity as a dark energy model, where $T$ is the torsion scalar of teleparallel gravity and $\phi$ is a canonical scalar field. In this context, we are concerned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Giovanni Otalora

This paper studies the cosmology of accelerating expansion of the universe in modified teleparallel gravity theory. We discuss the cosmology of $f(T,B)$ gravity theory and its implication to the new general form of the equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shambel Sahlu , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Amare Abebe , David F. Mota

We consider cosmological scenarios based on $f(R,T)$ theories of gravity ($R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor) and numerically reconstruct the function $f(R,T)$ which is able to reproduce the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 M. J. S. Houndjo , Oliver F. Piattella

In this article, we explore the comprehensive narrative of cosmic evolution within a cosmological framework by utilizing a novel form of gravity known as generalized symmetric teleparallel gravity, denoted as $f(Q,T)$ gravity. Here, $Q$…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Surajit Das , Sanjay Mandal

We investigate the cosmological applications of Myrzakulov $F(R,T)$ gravity. In this theory ones uses a specific but non-special connection, and thus both curvature and torsion are dynamical fields related to gravity. We introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Shynaray Myrzakul , Kairat Myrzakulov , Koblandy Yerzhanov