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This thesis investigates the characteristics of modified teleparallel gravity models that incorporate a scalar field and a trace of the energy-momentum tensor, with particular attention to their cosmological effects, especially regarding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 L K Duchaniya

Realism about general relativity (GR) seems to imply realism about spacetime curvature. The existence of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) calls this into question, for (a) TEGR is set in a torsionful but flat…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Ruward Mulder , James Read

We introduce a new class of two dimensional gravity models using ideas motivated by the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity. This leads to a rather natural formulation of a theory that has close links with Jackiw-Teitelboim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Christian G. Boehmer , Rafael Ferraro , Franco Fiorini

In teleparallelism one is able to tackle the gravitational energy and angular momentum problems in a way that distinguishes this theory from other theories of gravity, such as general relativity. However, unlike the $4$-momentum, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 J. B. Formiga , R. D. Costa

The notion of spacetime symmetry is essential to describe gravitating physical systems like planets, stars, black holes, or the universe as a whole, since they possess, at least to good approximation, spherical, axial, or spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Christian Pfeifer

We investigate modified theories of gravity in the context of teleparallel geometries with possible Gauss-Bonnet contributions. The possible coupling of gravity with the trace of the energy-momentum tensor is also taken into account. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-25 Sebastian Bahamonde , Christian G. Boehmer

This paper looks at how changes of coordinates on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold induce homogeneous linear transformations on its tangent spaces. We see that a pseudo-orthonormal frame in a given tangent space is the basis for a set of…

General Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Tom Lawrence

General relativity can be presented in terms of other geometries besides Riemannian. In particular, teleparallel geometry (i.e., curvature vanishes) has some advantages, especially concerning energy-momentum localization and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Nester , H-J Yo

We first present an overview of the Schwarzschild vacuum spacetime within general relativity, with particular emphasis on the role of scalar polynomial invariants and the null frame approach (and the related Cartan invariants), that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Alan A. Coley , Nicholas T. Layden , Diego F. Lopez

Teleparallel geometry utilizes Weitzenb\"ock connection which has nontrivial torsion but no curvature and does not directly follow from the metric like Levi-Civita connection. In extended teleparallel theories, for instance in $f(T)$ or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Laur Järv , Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

A brief account of the present status of the recent nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation is presented. The main physical assumptions that underlie this theory are described. We clarify the physical meaning and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-20 B. Mashhoon

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 cosmological evolution in a new modified teleparallel theory, called $f(T,B)$ gravity, which is formulated by connecting both $f(T)$ and $f(R)$ theories with a boundary term $B$. Here, $T$ is the torsion scalar in…

General Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. Zubair , Saira Waheed , M. Atif Fayyaz , Iftikhar Ahmad

Teleparallel gravity is a modified theory of gravity in which the Ricci scalar $R$ of the Lagrangian replaced by the general function of torsion scalar $T$ in action. With that, cosmology in teleparallel gravity becomes profoundly…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Teleparallel gravity theories employ a tetrad and a Lorentz spin connection as independent variables in their covariant formulation. In order to solve their field equations, it is helpful to search for solutions which exhibit certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Manuel Hohmann , Laur Järv , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

We apply the teleparallelism condition to the Poincar\'{e} gauge theory of gravity. The resultant teleparallelized cosmology is completely equivalent to the Friedmann cosmology derived from Einstein's general theory of relativity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-10 Wenjie Lu , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

The quest to understand gravity's role in shaping the universe has led to the exploration of modified gravity theories. One such theory is Myrzakulov gravity, which incorporates both curvature and torsion. In this work, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

The paper deals with the definition of gravitational energy in conformal teleparallel gravity. The total energy is defined by means of the field equations which allow a local conservation law. Then such an expression is analyzed for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 J. G. da Silva , S. C. Ulhoa

Gravity is identical to curved spacetime. It is manifested by the curvature of a Riemannian spacetime in general relativity but by torsion or non-metricity in teleparallel gravity models. In this paper, we apply these multiple options to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Jian Gao , Yuxuan Kang , Mingzhe Li , Yeheng Tong