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Classical generalization of general relativity is considered as gravitational alternative for unified description of the early-time inflation with late-time cosmic acceleration. The structure and cosmological properties of number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-26 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Here we analysed a particular type of $F(R)$ gravity, the so-called exponential gravity which includes an exponential function of the Ricci scalar in the action. Such term represents a correction to the usual Hilbert-Einstein action. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Saez-Chillon Gomez , German S. Sharov

We examine the observational viability of a class of $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity cosmological models. Particular attention is devoted to constraints from the recent observational determination of the redshift of the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Salvatore Capozziello , Omer Farooq , Orlando Luongo , Bharat Ratra

The unknown physical nature of the Dark Energy motivates in cosmology the study of modifications of the gravity theory at large distances. One of these types of modifications is to consider gravity theories, generally termed as $f(R)$. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Pedro Bessa , Marcela Campista , Armando Bernui

Modified gravity models are subject to a number of consistency requirements which restrict the form that the function $F(R)$ can take. We study a particular class of $F(R)$ functions which satisfy various constraints that have been found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Stephen A. Appleby , Richard A. Battye

We present a phenomenological analysis of current observational constraints on classes of FLRW cosmological models in which the matter side of Einstein's equations includes, in addition to the canonical term, a term proportional to some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 E. -A. Kolonia , C. J. A. P. Martins

In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover General Relativity, Scalar-Tensor, Einstein-Aether, and Bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Timothy Clifton , Pedro G. Ferreira , Antonio Padilla , Constantinos Skordis

Several models based on General Relativity and Modified Gravity aim to reproduce the observed universe with precision comparable to the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. In this study, we investigate the consistency of some of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Fernanda Oliveira , Bruno Ribeiro , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui

We consider f(R) modified gravity theories in the metric variation formalism and attempt to reconstruct the function f(R) by demanding a background LCDM cosmology. In particular we impose the following requirements: a. A background cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Fay , S. Nesseris , L. Perivolaropoulos

We present a novel approach for reconstructing the $f(Q)$ gravitational theory using parameterizations of the deceleration parameter or alternative options. This method enables the development of modified gravity scenarios that align with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 G. G. L. Nashed

We use the recently released cosmic chronometer data and the latest measured value of the local Hubble parameter, combined with the latest joint light curves of Supernovae Type Ia, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance measurements, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Everton M. C. Abreu

A new approach for embedding the renormalization group running of Newton's constant and cosmological constant in gravity is proposed. This approach is based on a gravitational Lagrangian that gives rise to a new class of modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Alfio Bonanno , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Vasilios Zarikas

Instead of assuming a form of gravity and demand cosmology fit with $\Lambda CDM$, a potentially `viable' $f(R)$ gravity model is derived assuming an alternative model of cosmology. Taking the `designer' approach to $f(R)$, a new class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-16 Rohin Kumar

A modified Mimetic gravity (MMG) is proposed as a generalization of general relativity. The model contain a physical metric which is function of an auxiliary (unphysical) metric and a Lyra's metric. We construct different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Davood Momeni , Aziza Altaibayeva , Ratbay Myrzakulov

This review explores modified theories of gravity, particularly $f(R)$ gravity, as extensions to General Relativity (GR) that offer alternatives to dark energy for explaining cosmic acceleration. These models generalize the Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Rafid H. Dejrah

We consider predictions for structure formation from modifications to general relativity in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is replaced by a general function of the Ricci scalar. We work without fixing a gauge, as well as in explicit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Rachel Bean , David Bernat , Levon Pogosian , Alessandra Silvestri , Mark Trodden

Several different explicit reconstructions of f(R) gravity are obtained from the background FRW expansion history. It is shown that the only theory whose Lagrangian is a simple function of the Ricci scalar R, that admits an exact LCDM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Peter K. S. Dunsby , Emilio Elizalde , Rituparno Goswami , Sergei Odintsov , Diego Saez-Gomez

As an important candidate gravity theory alternative to dark energy, a class of $f(R)$ modified gravity, which introduces a perturbation of the Ricci scalar $R$ in the Einstein-Hilbert action, has been extensively applied to cosmology to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Tengpeng Xu , Shuo Cao , Jingzhao Qi , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate the viability of f(R) theories in the framework of the Palatini approach as solutions to the problem of the observed accelerated expansion of the universe. Two physically motivated popular choices for f(R) are considered:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , M. Francaviglia

Modified gravity has attracted much attention over the last few years and remains a potential candidate for dark energy. In particular, the so-called viable f(R) gravity theories, which are able to both recover General Relativity (GR) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Sulona Kandhai , Diego Saez-Gomez