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We investigate the cosmological perturbations in f(T) gravity. Examining the pure gravitational perturbations in the scalar sector using a diagonal vierbien, we extract the corresponding dispersion relation, which provides a constraint on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Shih-Hung Chen , James B. Dent , Sourish Dutta , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We derive an exact $f(T)$ gravity in the absence of ordinary matter in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe, where $T$ is the teleparallel torsion scalar. We show that vanishing of the energy-momentum tensor $\mathcal{T}^{\mu \nu}$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 W. El Hanafy , G. L. Nashed

We investigate two new observational perspectives in the context of torsional gravitational modification of general relativity, i.e., the $f(T)$ gravity: i) We use Pantheon data of type Ia supernovae motivated by a time variation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Priya Yadav

In the last dozen years a wide and variegated mass of observational data revealed that the universe is now expanding at an accelerated rate. In the absence of a well-based theory to interpret the observations, cosmography provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Ester Piedipalumbo , Enrica Della Moglie , Roberto Cianci

In this paper, we explore the model of $f(Q,T)$ gravity, an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity where the nonmetricity scalar $Q$ is non-minimally coupled to the trace of the energy-momentum tensor $T$. To ensure general covariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Rahul Bhagat , Santosh V. Lohakare , B. Mishra

The late-time acceleration of the universe remains one of the most significant open problems in modern cosmology. Modified gravity frameworks such as $f(T)$ gravity provide a geometric alternative to dark energy by attributing cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Anirudh Pradhan , S. A. Salve , V. B. Raut , S. H. Shekh

f(T) gravity is a generalization of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), where T is the torsion scalar made up of the Weitzenb\"{o}ck connection. This connection describes a spacetime with zero curvature but with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-19 María José Guzmán , Rafael Ferraro

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

We study linear cosmological perturbations in the most general teleparallel gravity setting, where gravity is mediated by the torsion and nonmetricity of a flat connection alongside the metric. For a general linear perturbation of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Lavinia Heisenberg , Manuel Hohmann

We investigate the inflationary realization in the context of unimodular $F(T)$ gravity, which is based on the $F(T)$ modification of teleparallel gravity, in which one imposes the unimodular condition through the use of Lagrange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-29 Kazuharu Bamba , Sergei D. Odintsov , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study logamediate inflation in the context of $f(T)$ teleparallel gravity. $f(T)$-gravity is a generalization of the teleparallel gravity which is formulated on the Weitzenb\"{o}ck spacetime, characterized by the vanishing curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-28 Kazem Rezazadeh , Asrin Abdolmaleki , Kayoomars Karami

Recently the teleparallel Lagrangian density described by the torsion scalar T has been extended to a function of T. The $f(T)$ modified teleparallel gravity has been proposed as the natural gravitational alternative for dark energy to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 M. R. Setare , N. Mohammadipour

The study of cosmological perturbation theory in $f(T)$ gravity is a topic of great interest in teleparallel gravity since this is one of the simplest generalizations of the theory that modifies the teleparallel equivalent of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sebastian Bahamonde , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Manuel Hohmann , Jackson Levi Said , Christian Pfeifer , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

This thesis investigates the characteristics of modified teleparallel gravity models that incorporate a scalar field and a trace of the energy-momentum tensor, with particular attention to their cosmological effects, especially regarding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 L K Duchaniya

Cosmological perturbations are considered in $f(T)$ and in scalar-torsion $f(\varphi)T$ teleparallel models of gravity. Full sets of linear perturbation equations are accurately derived and analysed at the relevant limits. Interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Alexey Golovnev , Tomi Koivisto

We investigate the impact on cosmological observables of $f(Q)$-gravity, a specific class of modified gravity models in which gravity is described by the non-metricity scalar, $Q$. In particular we focus on a specific model which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Noemi Frusciante

In this work, we study the f(Q,T) model of symmetric teleparallel modified gravity in the framework of cosmological perturbation theory. Using a general approach, we extract the differential matter density equation then we simplify it as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Houda Filali , Rachid Ahl Laamara , Mohamed Bennai , El Hassan Saidi

$f(T,B)$ teleparallel gravity is a recently proposed straightforward generalization of the popular $f(T)$ teleparallel gravity by the incorporation of a boundary term $B=\frac{2}{e}\partial_{i}(e T ^{i}) = \bigtriangledown_{i}T^{i}$ where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Snehasish Bhattacharjee

We present an analysis of an $f(T, \mathcal{T})$ extension of the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity, where $T$ denotes the torsion and $\mathcal{T}$ the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. This extension includes non--minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Diego Saez-Gomez , C. Sofia Carvalho , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Ismael Tereno

We use observations related to the variation of fundamental constants, in order to impose constraints on the viable and most used $f(T)$ gravity models. In particular, for the fine-structure constant we use direct measurements obtained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Rafael C. Nunes , Alexander Bonilla , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis