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We study the accelerated expansion of the Universe through its consequences on a congruence of geodesics. We make use of the Raychaudhuri equation which describes the evolution of the expansion rate for a congruence of timelike or null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 F. D. Albareti , J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz

Cosmography can be considered as a sort of a model-independent approach to tackle the dark energy/modified gravity problem. In this review, the success and the shortcomings of the $\Lambda$CDM model, based on General Relativity and standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-09 Salvatore Capozziello , Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo

In this paper, we explore the model of $f(Q,T)$ gravity, an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity where the nonmetricity scalar $Q$ is non-minimally coupled to the trace of the energy-momentum tensor $T$. To ensure general covariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Rahul Bhagat , Santosh V. Lohakare , B. Mishra

Teleparallel gravity is a modified theory of gravity for which the Ricci scalar $R$ of the underlying geometry in the action is replaced by an arbitrary functional form of torsion scalar $T$. In doing so, cosmology in $% f(T)$ gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Sanjay Mandal , Snehasish Bhattacharjee , S. K. J. Pacif , P. K. Sahoo

We study flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models for a scalar field coupled nonminimally to teleparallel gravity with generic coupling and potential functions. The goal of this paper is to determine the conditions under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Laur Jarv , Alexey Toporensky

This study investigates the cosmological dynamics of an accelerating universe within the framework of teleparallel gravity using an exponential f(T) functional form. To obtain exact cosmological solutions, a hybrid scale factor is employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Rajalakshmi Jena , Vishal M C , Sankarsan Tarai

The present paper is elaborated to discuss the energy condition bounds in a modified teleparallel gravity namely $F(T,T_{G})$, involving torsion invariant $T$ and contribution from a term $T_G$, the teleparallel equivalent of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Saira Waheed , M. Zubair

In general relativity, the energy conditions are invoked to restrict general energy-momentum tensors $T_{\mu\nu}$ in different frameworks, and to derive general results that hold in a variety of general contexts on physical grounds. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Santos , J. S. Alcaniz , N. Pires , M. J. Reboucas

We consider a scalar-tensor theory in teleparallel gravity where a general function of the scalar field, f(phi), is non-minimally coupled to the torsion scalar T. First, we derive the field equations in this framework. Then, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Naser Mohammadipour

Over the past decades, the role of torsion in gravity has been extensively investigated along the main direction of bringing gravity closer to its gauge formulation and incorporating spin in a geometric description. Here we review various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-09 Yi-Fu Cai , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We proposed five $f(Q,T)$ models, which are an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity, where $Q$ is the non-metricity and $T$ is the trace of the stress-energy tensor. By taking specific values of their parameters, these models have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-09 Antonio Nájera , Amanda Fajardo

A complete theory of gravity impels us to go beyond Einstein's General Relativity. One promising approach lies in a new class of teleparallel theory of gravity named $f(Q)$, where the nonmetricity $Q$ is responsible for the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo , J. R. L. Santos

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

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

The present work deals with the classical and quantum aspects of the Raychaudhuri equation in the framework of f(T)-gravity theory. In the background of homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker space time, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Madhukrishna Chakraborty , Subenoy Chakraborty

Recent studies indicate that, near equilibrium condition could not be maintained for bulk viscous matter models during the accelerated expansion of the universe in the context of Einstein's gravity, without including the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Vishnu A Pai , Titus K Mathew

In this paper, we consider the flat Friedmann Lematre Robertson-Walke metric in the presence of perfect fluid models and extended $f(R,G,T)$ gravity (where $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $G$ is the Gauss Bonnet invariant and $T$ stands for trace…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 M. Ilyas , Aftab Ahmad , Fawad Khan , M. Wasif

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

In the context of the late time cosmic acceleration phenomenon, many geometrically modified theories of gravity have been proposed in recent times. In this paper, we have investigated the role of a recently proposed extension of symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 A. S. Agrawal , Laxmipriya Pati , S. K. Tripathy , B. Mishra

The current paper reports an investigation of the cosmological implications of symmetric teleparallel gravity within a modified $f(Q)$ theory. We construct a specific exponential $f(Q)$ model as $f(Q) = Q + \eta_1 Q_0\left(1 - e^{-\eta_2…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Sanjeeda Sultanaa , Surajit Chattopadhyay