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Nonlocal massive gravity can provide an interesting explanation for the late-time cosmic acceleration, with a dark energy equation of state $w_{\rm DE}$ smaller than $-1$ in the past. We derive the equations of linear cosmological…

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We investigate a modified cosmological model aimed at addressing the Hubble tension, considering revised dynamics in the late Universe. The model introduces a parameter $c$ affecting the evolution equations, motivated by a modified Poisson…

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The exponential $f(R)$ gravity model provides a theoretically well-motivated extension of General Relativity, introducing a modified gravitational dynamics at late times consistent with a dynamical dark energy scenario, while recovering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Simone D'Onofrio , Sergei Odintsov , Tiziano Schiavone

We propose a novel model in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity, which is a gravitational modification class arising from the incorporation of non-metricity. The model has General Relativity as a particular limit, it has the same number of free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Within the $f(Q)$-gravity framework we perform a phenomenological study of the cosmological observables in light of the degeneracy between neutrinos physics and the modified gravity parameter and we identify specific patterns which allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luís Atayde , Noemi Frusciante

Recent cosmological analyses based on DESI and CMB data have revealed a tension between the inferred sum of neutrino masses and the minimum value allowed by neutrino oscillation experiments, when assuming an underlying $\Lambda$CDM model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Cihad Kıbrıs , Willem Elbers , Özgür Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino

Non-zero neutrino mass would affect the evolution of the Universe in observable ways, and a strong constraint on the mass can be achieved using combinations of cosmological data sets. We focus on the power spectrum of cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Tomo Takahashi , Lincoln Greenhill

The recent release of high-precision cosmological data, particularly the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements from ACT and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from DESI, has opened a new landscape for probing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Lu Feng , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We revisit our previous work [Phys. Rev. D 95, 096014 (2017)] where neutrino oscillation and nonoscillation data were analyzed in the standard framework with three neutrino families, in order to constrain their absolute masses and to probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Francesco Capozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Melchiorri , Antonio Palazzo

Theoretical differences in the growth of structure offer the possibility that we might distinguish between modified gravity theories of dark energy and \LambdaCDM. A significant impediment to applying current and prospective large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Istvan Laszlo , Rachel Bean

It has been suggested that Einstein's theory of General Relativity can be modified to accomodate mismatches between the gravitational field and luminous matter on a wide range of scales. Covariant theories of modified gravity generically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-31 P. G Ferreira , C. Skordis , C. Zunckel

In this paper we investigate a time-varying neutrino mass model, motivated by the mild tension between cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements of the matter fluctuations and those obtained from low-redshift data. We modify the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Christiane S. Lorenz , Lena Funcke , Erminia Calabrese , Steen Hannestad

Within the standard three-neutrino framework, the absolute neutrino masses and their ordering (either normal, NO, or inverted, IO) are currently unknown. However, the combination of current data coming from oscillation experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Francesco Capozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Melchiorri , Antonio Palazzo

New corrections to General Relativity are considered in the context of modified $f(R)$ gravity, that satisfy cosmological and local gravity constraints. The proposed models behave asymptotically as $R-2\Lambda$ at large curvature and show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-13 L. N. Granda

We use the cosmic shear data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey to place constraints on $f(R)$ and {\it Generalized Dilaton} models of modified gravity. This is highly complimentary to other probes since the constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Philippe Brax , Peter Coles , Luca Rizzo

In the past decade or so observations of supernovae, Large Scale Structures (LSS), and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have confirmed the presence of what is called dark energy - the cause of accelerating expansion of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 Houri Ziaeepour

We explore cosmological constraints on the sum of the three active neutrino masses $M_{\nu}$ in the context of dynamical dark energy (DDE) models with equation of state (EoS) parametrized as a function of redshift $z$ by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-14 Sunny Vagnozzi , Suhail Dhawan , Martina Gerbino , Katherine Freese , Ariel Goobar , Olga Mena

Recently, DESI has released baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, and DES has also published its five-year supernova (SN) data. These observations, combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, support a dynamically evolving dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Guo-Hong Du , Peng-Ju Wu , Tian-Nuo Li , Xin Zhang

We investigate the impact of spatial curvature, $\Omega_k$, and dynamical dark energy on the cosmological constraints of the neutrino mass sum, $\sum m_\nu$. Using a joint analysis of the latest CMB (Planck and ACT DR6), BAO (DESI DR2) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Hayyim Pulido-Hernández , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota