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Future large scale structure surveys will provide increasingly tight constraints on our cosmological model. These surveys will report results on the distance scale and growth rate of perturbations through measurements of Baryon Acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Martin White

In experimental proposals published in the last two decades, a so called frozen spin storage ring concept was proposed for setting upper experimental bounds to electric dipole moment (EDM) of elementary particles. In a recent paper of ours,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Andras Laszlo

General relativity as one the pillar of modern cosmology has to be thoroughly tested if we want to achieve an accurate cosmology. We present the results from such a test on cosmological scales using cosmic shear and galaxy clustering…

In a recent paper [1], it was introduced a new class of gravitational theories with two local degrees of freedom. The existence of these theories apparently challenges the distinctive role of general relativity as the unique non-linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-30 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati

We investigate clustering properties of dark matter halos and galaxies to search for optimal statistics and scales where possible departures from general relativity (GR) could be found. We use large N-body cosmological simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Suhani Gupta , Maciej Bilicki

A modified gravitational theory explains early universe and late time cosmology, galaxy and galaxy cluster dynamics. The modified gravity (MOG) theory extends general relativity (GR) by three extra degrees of freedom: a scalar field $G$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 J. W. Moffat

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to test deviations from general relativity (GR) that introduce a new physical scale within its redshift range. Using the connection between a Yukawa-like…

Testing General Relativity (GR) is a key science goal of much of modern physics, and usually results in constraints that are either theory or context specific. We present an holistic framework that we dub `Parametrized Post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Daniel B Thomas , Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton

We investigate the synergy between large-scale structure (LSS) observations and gravitational wave (GW) events for testing modified gravity. In particular, we forecast the LSS $\times$ GW cross-correlation signal using Stage-IV LSS surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Chiara De Leo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Anna Balaudo , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandra Silvestri , Tessa Baker

General relativity (GR) faces challenges from cosmic acceleration and observational tensions, necessitating stringent tests at cosmological scales. In this work, we probe GR deviations via a $\mu$--$\Sigma$ modified gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Guo-Hong Du , Tian-Nuo Li , Tonghua Liu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Viable models of modified gravity designed to produce cosmic acceleration at the current epoch, closely mimic the $\Lambda$CDM model at the level of background cosmology. However, this degeneracy is generically broken at the level of linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Alessandra Silvestri

We use N-body simulations to study the statistics of massive halos and redshift space distortions for theories with a standard \Lambda CDM expansion history and a galileon-type scalar field. The extra scalar field increases the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Mark Wyman , Elise Jennings , Marcos Lima

This paper is the third in a series on tests of gravity using observations of stars and nearby dwarf galaxies. We carry out four distinct tests using published data on the kinematics and morphology of dwarf galaxies, motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vinu Vikram , Anna Cabre , Bhuvnesh Jain , Jake VanderPlas

We use a range of cosmological data to constrain phenomenological modifications to general relativity on cosmological scales, through modifications to the Poisson and lensing equations. We include cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-29 Agnès Ferté , Donnacha Kirk , Andrew R. Liddle , Joe Zuntz

If visible matter alone is present in the Universe, general relativity (GR) and its Newtonian weak field limit (WFL) cannot explain several pieces of evidence, from the largest to the smallest scales. The most investigated solution is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-11 Valentina Cesare

In 'modified' gravity the observed acceleration of the universe is explained by changing the gravitational force law or the number of degrees of freedom in the gravitational sector. Both possibilities can be tested by measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Clare Burrage , David Parkinson , David Seery

The discovery that the cosmic expansion is accelerating has been followed by an intense theoretical and experimental response in physics and astronomy. The discovery implies that our most basic notions about how gravity work are violated on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Robert R. Caldwell , Marc Kamionkowski

This study explores the link between Modified Gravity and modifications of phase space volume. Analyzing Fermi gas modifications {in the non-relativistic limit of the} Ricci-based gravities, we derive a generalized partition function in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Aneta Wojnar

A recent theory about the origin of the gravity suggests that the gravity is originally an entropic force. In this work, we discuss the effects of generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) which is proposed by some approaches to quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-25 Ahmed Farag Ali , A. Tawfik

Although General Relativity (GR) is a very successful theory of gravity, it cannot explain every observational phenomenon. People have tried many kinds of modified gravity theory to explain these phenomena which GR cannot explain very well,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Shunrui Li , Yang Liu