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In the context of f(R) theories of gravity, we study the cosmological evolution of scalar perturbations by using a completely general procedure. We find that the exact fourth-order differential equation for the matter density perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , A. Dobado , A. L. Maroto

We consider cosmological models based on the scalar-torsion gravity implying non-minimal coupling between torsion and the scalar field with certain relations between model's parameters. Based on observational constraints on the values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 I. V. Fomin , S. V. Chervon , E. S. Dentsel

In recent years, modifications to General Relativity (GR) have been explored to address cosmological observations, particularly in the context of late-time cosmic acceleration. Among these, modifications based on the Teleparallel Equivalent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Saurabh Verma , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M. S. Barak

Symmetric teleparallel gravity (STG) is a gravity theory which takes non-metricity tensor to describe gravity effects. In the STG framework, we study the conformal equivalent scalar-tensor theory of f(Q) model and calculate the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Dehao Zhao

We review the current status of the Lorentz covariance in teleparallel and modified teleparallel theories of gravity, and discuss the controversial features of the different approaches. We also revisit the issue of the remnant Lorentz gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-05 Cecilia Bejarano , Rafael Ferraro , Franco Fiorini , María José Guzmán

We present an extension of $f(T)$ gravity, allowing for a general coupling of the torsion scalar $T$ with the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor $\mathcal{T}$. The resulting $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ theory is a new modified gravity, since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , G. Otalora , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The cosmological scalar perturbations of standard matter are investigated in the context of extended teleparallel $f(T)$ gravity theories using the $1+3$ covariant formalism. After a review of the background, gravitational field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Shambel Sahlu , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Amare Abebe , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , David F. Mota

Recently $f(T)$ theories based on modifications of teleparallel gravity where torsion is the geometric object describing gravity instead of curvature have been proposed to explain the present cosmic accelerating expansion. The field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-10 Rong-Jia Yang

We present a class of cosmological solutions for a generalized teleparallel gravity with, $f(T)=T+\tilde{\alpha}(-T)^n$, where $\tilde{\alpha}$ is some parameter and $n$ is an integer or half-integer. Choosing $\tilde{\alpha} \sim G^{n-1}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Adel Awad , Gamal Nashed

We consider the teleparallel equivalent of Lovelock gravity and its natural extension, where the action is given by an arbitrary function $f(T_{_{L_1}}, T_{_{L_2}},\cdot \cdot \cdot , T_{_{L_n}})$ of the torsion invariants $T_{_{L_i}}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 P. A. González , Samuel Reyes , Yerko Vásquez

We investigate the gravitational waves and their properties in various modified teleparallel theories, such as $f(T), f(T,B)$ and $f(T,T_G)$ gravities. We perform the perturbation analysis both around a Minkowski background, as well as in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In the present study, we consider an extended form of teleparallel Lagrangian $f(T,\phi,X)$, as function of a scalar field $\phi$, its kinetic term $X$ and the torsion scalar $T$. We use linear perturbations to obtain the equation of matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Habib Abedi , Salvatore Capozziello , Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo

The 1+3 covariant approach and the covariant gauge-invariant approach to perturbations are used to analyze in depth conformal transformations in cosmology. Such techniques allow us to obtain very interesting insights on the physical content…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sante Carloni , Emilio Elizalde , Sergei Odintsov

We formulate cosmological perturbation theory around the spatially curved FLRW background in the context of metric-affine gauge theory of gravity which includes torsion and nonmetricity. Performing scalar-vector-tensor decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 Katsuki Aoki , Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Mohammad Ali Gorji

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

In this work we present a few simple cosmological models under the modified theory of gravity in the particular form of $f(R,\mathcal{T})=R+2f(\mathcal{T})$, where $R$ is the Ricci Scalar and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-14 B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy , Saibal Ray

We analyze cosmological perturbations to the linear order in the context of inflation with an arbitrary number of scalar fields. The fields take values on a non-trivial manifold with a positive-definite metric and are non-minimally coupled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joydev Lahiri , Gautam Bhattacharya

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

Bianchi I cosmological solutions in f(T) gravity are discussed. We start from diagonal metrics and tetrads and show that their dynamical equations are pretty much tractable analytically, with a possible arena for physical applications. Then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Alexey Golovnev , Mustafa M. Hemida

Teleparallel gravity has significantly increased in popularity in recent decades, bringing attention to Einstein's other theory of gravity. In this Review, we relate this form of geometry to the broader metric-affine approach to forming…