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In the conventional formulation of general relativity, gravity is represented by the metric curvature of Riemannian geometry. There are also alternative formulations in flat affine geometries, wherein the gravitational dynamics is instead…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-14 Muzaffer Adak , Tekin Dereli , Tomi S. Koivisto , Caglar Pala

Symmetric teleparallel gravity is constructed with a nonzero nonmetricity tensor while both torsion and curvature are vanishing. In this framework, we find exact scalarised spherically symmetric static solutions in scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Laur Järv , Joosep Lember

We discuss linear perturbations of the most general class of teleparallel spacetimes with cosmological symmetry, and perform a decomposition of these perturbations into irreducible components. We then study their behavior under gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Manuel Hohmann

Using a nonlinear electrodynamics coupled to teleparallel theory of gravity, three regular charged spherically symmetric solutions are obtained. The nonlinear theory reduces to the Maxwell one in the weak limit and the solutions correspond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gamal G. L. Nashed

We investigate in this paper the static radial coordinate-dependent spherically symmetric spacetime in teleparallel $F(T)$ gravity for a scalar field source. We begin by setting the static field equations (FEs) to be solved and solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Alexandre Landry

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

$f(Q)$ and $f(T)$ gravity are based on fundamentally different geometric frameworks, yet they exhibit many similar properties. This article provides a comprehensive summary and comparative analysis of the various theoretical branches of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Cheng Wu , Xin Ren , Yuhang Yang , Yu-Min Hu , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Teleparallel gravity offers a new avenue in which to construct gravitational models beyond general relativity. While teleparallel gravity can be framed in a way to be dynamically equivalent to general relativity, its modifications are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-28 Sebastian Bahamonde , Viktor Gakis , Stella Kiorpelidi , Tomi Koivisto , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate modified theories of gravity in the context of teleparallel geometries. It is well known that modified gravity models based on the torsion scalar are not invariant under local Lorentz transformations while modifications based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-30 Sebastian Bahamonde , Christian G. Boehmer , Matthew Wright

We examine the teleparallel formulation of non-minimally coupled scalar Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. In the teleparallel formulation, gravity is described by torsion instead of curvature, causing the usual Gauss-Bonnet invariant expressed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Sebastian Bahamonde , Daniela D. Doneva , Ludovic Ducobu , Christian Pfeifer , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We extend a recently developed numerical code to obtain stationary, axisymmetric solutions that describe rotating black hole spacetimes in a wide class of modified theories of gravity. The code utilizes a relaxed Newton-Raphson method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolás Yunes , Thomas P. Sotiriou

In this paper we elaborate on the symmetric teleparallel gravity (STPG) written in a non-Riemannian spacetime with nonzero nonmetricity, but zero torsion and zero curvature. Firstly we give a prescription for obtaining the nonmetricity from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Muzaffer Adak , Özcan Sert , Mestan Kalay , Murat Sarı

By generalizing the Hodge dual operator to the case of soldered bundles, and working in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, an analysis of the duality symmetry in gravitation is performed. Although the basic…

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

Circular photon orbits have become an attractive topic in recent years. They play extremely important roles in black hole shadows, gravitational lensings, quasi-normal modes, and spacetime topological properties. In our recent work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chenkai Qiao , Ming Li , Donghui Xie , Minyong Guo

We studied spherically symmetric solutions in scalar-torsion gravity theories in which a scalar field is coupled to torsion with a derivative coupling. We obtained the general field equations from which we extracted a decoupled master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Georgios Kofinas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

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

Scalar-tensor theories offer the prospect of explaining the cosmological evolution of the Universe through an effective description of dark energy as a quantity with a non-trivial evolution. In this work, we investigate this feature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-19 S. A. Kadam , B. Mishra , Jackson Levi Said

We investigate the cosmological perturbations around all three branches of spatially flat universe with different connections in symmetric teleparallel gravity. The model we consider can cover both the case of f(Q) model and that of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-06 Haomin Rao , Chunhui Liu , Chao-Qiang Geng

In this paper, we investigate time-dependent Kantowski--Sachs spherically symmetric teleparallel $F(T)$ gravity with a scalar field source. We begin by setting the exact field equations to be solved and solve conservation laws for possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexandre Landry

A class of theories of gravitation that naturally incorporates preferred frames of reference is presented. The underlying space-time geometry consists of a partial parallelization of space-time and has properties of Riemann-Cartan as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Kohler