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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

We present the geometric foundations and derivations of equations of motion for symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity in the coincident gauge and covariant frameworks. We discuss the theoretical challenges introduced by the auxiliary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Daniel Blixt , Alexey Golovnev , Maria-Jose Guzman , Ramazan Maksyutov

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

In this paper we study cosmological perturbations in teleparallel gravity. We discuss problems which appear in standard approach to $f(T)$ gravity, and find that these problems may be solved within covariant formulation of teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 A. Toporensky , P. Tretyakov

Teleparallel gravity and its popular generalization $f(T)$ gravity can be formulated as fully invariant (under both coordinate transformations and local Lorentz transformations) theories of gravity. Several misconceptions about teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 M. Krssak , R. J. van den Hoogen , J. G. Pereira , C. G. Boehmer , A. A. Coley

There has been growing interest in $f(Q)$ gravity, which has led to significant advancements in the field. However, it is important to note that most studies in this area were based on the coincident gauge, thus overlooking the impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Lavinia Heisenberg , Manuel Hohmann , Simon Kuhn

We derive the most general homogeneous and isotropic teleparallel geometries, defined by a metric and a flat, affine connection. We find that there are five branches of connection solutions, which are connected via several limits, and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Lavinia Heisenberg , Manuel Hohmann , Simon Kuhn

The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe highlighted General Relativity's inability to naturally account for dark energy without invoking a finely tuned cosmological constant. In response, a wide range of alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 P. A. G. Monteiro , C. J. A. P. Martins

A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Alexandre Landry , Robert J. van den Hoogen

In this article, we focus on symmetric teleparallel gravity, a modification of General Relativity where gravity is described by the non-metricity of an affine connection, whose curvature and torsion vanish. In these theories, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Manuel Hohmann , Vasiliki Karanasou

Teleparallel gravity models, in which the curvature and the nonmetricity of spacetime are both set zero, are widely studied in the literature. We work a different teleparallel theory, in which the curvature and the torsion of spacetime are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Muzaffer Adak , Ozcan Sert

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…

We analyze the construction of conformal theories of gravity in the realm of teleparallel theories. We first present a family of conformal theories which are quadratic in the torsion tensor and are constructed out of the tetrad field and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-19 J. W. Maluf , F. F. Faria

It is known that some cosmological perturbations are conformal invariant. This facilitates the studies of perturbations within some gravitational theories alternative to general relativity, for example the scalar-tensor theory, because it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Mingzhe Li , Yicen Mou

We discuss the most general class of teleparallel scalar-torsion theories of gravity in their covariant formulation. The only restrictions we impose are the invariance of the action under diffeomorphisms and local Lorentz transformations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Manuel Hohmann

Gauge-invariant treatments of general-relativistic higher-order perturbations on generic background spacetime is proposed. We show the fact that the linear-order metric perturbation is decomposed into gauge-invariant and gauge-variant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Kouji Nakamura

In this paper, we present the cosmological perturbation formalism for theories within the framework of affine gravity. These theories are distinguished by their connection, devoid of any metric. Our approach involves segregating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Oscar Castillo-Felisola , Radouane Gannouji , Manuel Morocho-López , Marcelo Rozas-Rojas

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

We study the variational principle and derivation of the field equations for different classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using both their metric-affine and covariant tetrad formulations. These theories have in common that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-22 Manuel Hohmann

It has been shown that at the semi-classical order, gravitational theories with quantum fluctuations can be effectively recast as modified theories of gravity with non-minimal gravity-matter couplings. We proceed from an observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-29 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Che-Yu Chen , Jackson Levi Said , Yu-Hsien Kung