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We consider Horndeski modified gravity models obeying stability, velocity of gravitational waves $c_T$ equals $c$ and quasistatic approximation (QSA) on subhorizon scales. We assume further a $\Lambda$CDM background expansion and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Radouane Gannouji , Leandros Perivolaropoulos , David Polarski , Foteini Skara

We review the book of Ruben Aldrovandi and Jose Geraldo Pereira about Teleparallel Gravity. Teleparallel Gravity is an alternative to General Relativity to describe the gravitational interaction. The difference between General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Rodrigo Francisco dos Santos , Marilton Rafael da Silva Lemes , Luis Gustavo de Almeida

We consider the most general class of teleparallel theories of gravity quadratic in the torsion tensor, and carry out a detailed investigation of its Hamiltonian formulation in the time gauge. Such general class is given by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Maluf , A. A. Sousa

We discuss two spherically symmetric solutions admitted by the Horndeski (or scalar tensor) theory in the context of solar system and astrophysical scenarios. One of these solutions is derived for Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, while the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-28 Sourav Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

In teleparallel gravity, we apply Lorenz type gauge fixing to cope with redundant degrees of freedom in the vierbein field. This condition is mainly to restore the Lorentz symmetry of the teleparallel torsion scalar. In cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-27 W. El Hanafy , G. G. L. Nashed

We present in the form of a catalogue of the cosmological perturbations within the Bahamonde- Dialektopoulos-Levi Said (BDLS) theory, which serves as the teleparallel counterpart of Horndeski gravity. To understand structure formation in…

The primary constraints for general teleparallel quadratic gravity are presented. They provide a basic classification of teleparallel theories from the perspective of the full nonlinear theory and represent the first step towards a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Francesco Bajardi , Daniel Blixt

A general framework for effective theories propagating two tensor and one scalar degrees of freedom is investigated. Geometrically, it describes dynamical foliation of spacelike hypersurfaces coupled to a general background, in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-29 Xian Gao

Gravitational decoupled compact polytropic hybrid stars are here addressed in generalized Horndeski scalar-tensor gravity. Additional physical properties of hybrid stars are scrutinized and discussed in the gravitational decoupling setup.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Roldao da Rocha

Teleparallel gravity shares many qualitative features with general relativity, but differs from it in the following way: whereas in general relativity, gravitation is a manifestation of space-time curvature, in teleparallel gravity,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 James Owen Weatherall , Helen Meskhidze

A new expression for the spin connection of teleparallel gravity is proposed, given by minus the contorsion tensor plus a zero connection. The corresponding minimal coupling is covariant under local Lorentz transformation, and equivalent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. C. de Andrade , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira

This paper develops a renormalized perturbation theory framework for nonlinear structure formation in a broad class of modified gravity models that exhibit Vainshtein screening, with a focus on a viable subclass of Horndeski theories. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Luca Amendola , Carla Bernal , Radouane Gannouji

Invertible disformal transformations are a useful tool to investigate ghost-free scalar-tensor theories. By performing a higher-derivative generalization of the invertible disformal transformation on Horndeski theories, we construct a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-16 Kazufumi Takahashi , Masato Minamitsuji , Hayato Motohashi

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

We reformulate the recently proposed regularized version of Lovelock gravity in four dimensions as a scalar-tensor theory. By promoting the warp factor of the internal space to a scalar degree of freedom by means of Kaluza-Klein reduction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Tsutomu Kobayashi

A quantum cosmology in teleparallel gravity is presented in this article. Teleparallel gravity is used to perform such an analysis once in General Relativity (GR) the concept of gravitational energy is misleading preventing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 A. S. Fernandes , S. C. Ulhoa , R. G. G. Amorim

We use galaxy-galaxy weak lensing data to perform a novel test on general relativity (GR) and $f(T)$ torsional gravity. In particular, we impose strong constraints using the torsional (teleparallel) formulation of gravity in which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhaoting Chen , Wentao Luo , Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The Horndeski action is the most general scalar-tensor theory with at most second-order derivatives in the equations of motion, thus evading Ostrogradsky instabilities and making it of interest when modifying gravity at large scales. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Ryan McManus , Lucas Lombriser , Jorge Peñarrubia

The cosmological propagation of tensor perturbations is studied in the context of parity-violating extensions of the symmetric teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity theory. This non-Riemannian formulation allows for a wider variety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

The motion of spinless particles in Riemann-Cartan (RC) $U_{4}$ and teleparallel spacetimes is revisited on the light of gravitational waves hitting on the spinless test particles. It is shown that in the case Cartan contortion is totally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade