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Under the assumption that General Relativity (GR) correctly describes the phenomenology of our Universe, astronomical observations provide compelling evidence that (1) the dynamics of cosmic structure is dominated by dark matter (DM), an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 A. Diaferio

The observed matter in the universe accounts for just 5 percent of the observed gravity. A possible explanation is that Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity fail where gravity is either weak or enhanced. The modified theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pedro G. Ferreira , Glenn Starkmann

In this work, we propose different models of extended theories of gravity, which are minimally coupled to the SM fields, to explain the possibility of a dark matter (DM) candidate, without ad-hoc additions to the Standard Model (SM). We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-28 Sayantan Choudhury , Manibrata Sen , Soumya Sadhukhan

We explore the internal structures of the white dwarfs in two different modified theories of gravity: (i) scalar-tensor-vector gravity and (ii) beyond Horndeski theories of $G_3$ type. The modification of the gravitational force inside the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Khursid Alam , Tousif Islam

Modified dark matter (MDM, formerly known as MoNDian dark matter) is a phenomenological model of dark matter, inspired by quantum gravity. We review the construction of MDM by generalizing entropic gravity to de-Sitter space as is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-02 Y. Jack Ng , Doug Edmonds , Duncan Farrah , Djordje Minic , Tatsu Takeuchi , Chiu Man Ho

We explore a new horizon of modified gravity from the viewpoint of the particle physics. As a concrete example, we take the $F(R)$ gravity to raise a question: can a scalar particle ("scalaron") derived from the $F(R)$ gravity be a dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shinya Matsuzaki

The combination of GR and the Standard Model disagrees with numerous observations on scales from our Solar System up. In the concordance model of cosmology, these contradictions are removed or alleviated by the introduction of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-10 Glenn D. Starkman

Modified Gravity (MOG) and Non-Local Gravity (NLG) are two alternative theories to General Relativity. They are able to explain the rotation curves of spiral galaxies and clusters of galaxies without including dark matter (Moffat & Rahvar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-09 M. H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , S. Rahvar

We continue the study of the tensor-four-scalars theory which is a modification of general relativity. We include normal matter by applying the displace, cut, and reflect method to our previous vacuum solutions with dark halo. The resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-22 Günter Scharf

We argue that the conjectured dark mater in the Universe may be endowed with a new kind of gravitational charge that couples to a short range gravitational interaction mediated by a massive vector field. A model is constructed that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-30 R. W. Tucker , C. Wang

Various theories, such as MOND, MOG, Emergent Gravity and $f(R)$ theories avoid dark matter by assuming a change in General Relativity and/or in Newton's law. Galactic rotation curves are typically described well. Here the application to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Theodorus Maria Nieuwenhuizen

Massive gravity previously constructed as the spin-2 quantum gauge theory leads in the mass zero limit to a modification of general relativity. As a relic from the massive theory a vector field v survives which couples to the metric only.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-09 Gunter Scharf

We explore the dynamics and evolution of the Universe at early and late times, focusing on both dark energy and extended gravity models and their astrophysical and cosmological consequences. Modified theories of gravity not only provide an…

We present a theory of modified gravity, inspired by the gauge theories, where the commutator algebra of covariant derivative gives us an added term with respect to the General Relativity, which represents the interaction of gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-05 M. Hamani Daouda , Manuel E. Rodrigues , M. J. S. Houndjo

One of the most intriguing unsolved problems in modern cosmology involves the nature of the observed dark matter in the universe. Various hypothetical particles have been postulated as the source of the dark matter, but as of yet none of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan N. Vollick

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity can lead to modifications of the gravitational force inside astrophysical objects. We exhibit that compact stars such as white dwarfs provide a unique set-up to test beyond Horndeski theories of ${\rm G}^3$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Rajeev Kumar Jain , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

The reconstruction scheme is developed for modified $f(R)$ gravity with realistic matter (dark matter, baryons, radiation). Two versions of such theory are constructed: the first one describes the sequence of radiation and matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

We suggest a new efficient way to constrain a certain class of large scale modifications of gravity. We show that the scale-free relation between density and size of Dark Matter halos, predicted within the LambdaCDM model with Newtonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-04 Alexey Boyarsky , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The nonsymmetric gravitational theory predicts an acceleration law that modifies the Newtonian law of attraction between particles. For weak fields a fit to the flat rotation curves of galaxies is obtained in terms of the mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

It is now, generally, believed that the presence of some form of dark matter is essential to explain the flat rotation curves of galaxies, and anomalous large velocities of galaxies in the clusters and superclusters. This dark matter turns…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mofazzal Azam