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Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory signal that provides a promising probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first computation of memory from full inspiral--merger--ringdown waveforms in a theory beyond GR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Silvia Gasparotto

The measurement of the size of gravitationally bounded structures is an important test of gravity theories. For a given radius different theories can in fact predict a different gravitational stability mass (GSM) necessary to ensure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Camilo Santa , Antonio Enea Romano

We study the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) from a chiral scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The parity-violating (PV) Lagrangian contains the Chern-Simons (CS) term and PV scalar-tensor terms, which are built of the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

We employ multiple-scale analysis to systematically derive analytical approximations describing the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves beyond general relativity, in a framework with two interacting spin-2 fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Marco de Cesare , Mairi Sakellariadou , Benjamin Sutton

We formulate the junction conditions for Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG/MOG), proposed by J.~W.~Moffat. Using these conditions, the theory of gravitational collapse is constructed. In the collapsing process, an interior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Debanjan Debnath , Anant Badal , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We propose a testable alternative to inflation directly built in a very general class of ultraviolet complete theories of quantum gravity enjoying Weyl invariance. After the latter is spontaneously broken, logarithmic quantum corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Gianluca Calcagni , Leonardo Modesto

I describe a tensor-vector-scalar theory that reconciles the galaxy scale success of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) with the cosmological scale evidence for CDM. The theory provides a cosmological basis for MOND in the sense that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. H. Sanders

We identify models of supersymmetric hybrid inflation in which the tensor-to-scalar ratio, a canonical measure of gravity waves produced during inflation, can be as large as 0.03 or so, which will be tested by the Planck satellite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-07 Qaisar Shafi , Joshua R. Wickman

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework for gravitational wave (GW) propagation and their \textbf{nonlinear backreaction} in $f(R, G)$ modified gravity. By developing a scalar-tensor formulation with two auxiliary fields, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Farzad Milani

We find a connection between relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theories and (scalar) mimetic gravity. We first demonstrate that any relativistic MOND model featuring a unit-timelike vector field, such as TeVeS or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz

Gravity theories beyond general relativity (GR) can change the properties of gravitational waves: their polarizations, dispersion, speed, and, importantly, energy content are all heavily theory- dependent. All these corrections can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-20 Maximiliano Isi , Leo C. Stein

We describe how to reconstruct generalized scalar-tensor gravity (GSTG) theory, which admits exact solutions for physical type of the potentials. Our consideration deals with cosmological inflationary models based on GSTG with non-minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 I. V. Fomin , S. V. Chervon , A. V. Tsyganov

The energy density spectrum is an observable of gravitational waves. Divergence has appeared in the energy density spectra of the scalar induced gravitational waves for different gauge fixings. To resolve the discrepancy, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

The weak gravity conjecture imposes severe constraints on natural inflation. A trans-Planckian axion decay constant can only be realized if the potential exhibits an additional (subdominant) modulation with sub-Planckian periodicity. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Martina Gerbino , Micol Benetti

In the approach of the effective field theory of modified gravity, we derive the second-order action and the equation of motion for tensor perturbations on the flat isotropic cosmological background. This analysis accommodates a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

Owing to the mass scale associated with the scalar longitudinal mode signal of gravitational wave predicted by modified theories of gravity, it should propagate at a subluminal speed and with a different frequency compared to the massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Rakesh Das , Anirban Saha

An additional scalar degree of freedom for a gravitational wave is often predicted in theories of gravity beyond general relativity and can be used for a model-agnostic test of gravity. In this letter, we report the direct search for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Hiroki Takeda , Soichiro Morisaki , Atsushi Nishizawa

The Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which promotes the gravitational constant to a dynamical scalar field, predicts a value for the Eddington-Robertson post-Newtonian parameter gamma that is significantly different from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-12 John W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

Emergent modified gravity is a post-Einsteinian gravitational theory where spacetime geometry is not fundamental but rather emerges from the gravitational degrees of freedom in a non-trivial way. The specific relationship between geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Martin Bojowald , Erick I. Duque , S. Shankaranarayanan

Birkhoff's theorem is discussed in the frame of f(R) gravity by using its scalar-tensor representation. Modified gravity has become very popular at recent times as it is able to reproduce the unification of inflation and late-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Salvatore Capozziello , Diego Sáez-Gómez