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We develop a Lagrangian formulation for gravity with matter where the gravitational couplings are universally treated as being field-dependent. The solutions for FLRW geometries and the associated time evolution of the Newton and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Sandipan Sengupta

A generally covariant version of Erik Verlinde's emergent gravity model is proposed. The Lagrangian constructed here allows an improved interpretation of the underlying mechanism. It suggests that de-Sitter space is filled with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Hossenfelder

The framework of the Covariant Canonical Gauge theory of Gravity (CCGG) is described in detail. CCGG emerges naturally in the Palatini formulation, where the vierbein and the spin connection are independent fields. Neither torsion nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 David Vasak , Jürgen Struckmeier

In any generally covariant theory of gravity, we show the relationship between the linearized asymptotically conserved current and its non-linear completion through the identically conserved current. Our formulation for conserved charges is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-10 Wontae Kim , Shailesh Kulkarni , Sang-Heon Yi

Quadratic theory of gravity is a complicated constraint system. We investigate some consequences of treating quadratic terms perturbatively (higher derivative version of backreaction effects). This approach is shown to overcome some well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 J. H. Kung

We study the cosmological evolution of an induced gravity model with a self-interacting scalar field $\sigma$ and in the presence of matter and radiation. Such model leads to Einstein Gravity plus a cosmological constant as a stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Finelli , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi

We review various modified gravities considered as gravitational alternative for dark energy. Specifically, we consider the versions of $f(R)$, $f(G)$ or $f(R,G)$ gravity, model with non-linear gravitational coupling or string-inspired…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

A new framework for exploiting information about the renormalization group (RG) behavior of gravity in a dynamical context is discussed. The Einstein-Hilbert action is RG-improved by replacing Newton's constant and the cosmological constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reuter , H. Weyer

This paper analyses the cosmological consequences of a modified theory of gravity whose action integral is built from a linear combination of the Ricci scalar $R$ and a quadratic term in the covariant derivative of $R$. The resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 R. R. Cuzinatto , C. A. M. de Melo , L. G. Medeiros , P. J. Pompeia

A modified gravitational theory explains early universe and late time cosmology, galaxy and galaxy cluster dynamics. The modified gravity (MOG) theory extends general relativity (GR) by three extra degrees of freedom: a scalar field $G$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 J. W. Moffat

We show that dark energy and dark matter can be described simultaneously by ordinary Einstein gravity interacting with a single scalar field provided the scalar field Lagrangian couples in a symmetric fashion to two different spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Eduardo Guendelman , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

We develop a framework for superposition in relativistic gravity within Extended Relativity (ER), a Lorentz-covariant theory formulated in flat spacetime. In this approach, gravitational fields are described by deviations from the Minkowski…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Y. Friedman

Following our previous work in [JCAP 1206, 041 (2012)], in this paper, we continue our study of reconstructing $f(R)$ modified gravity models that can be connected to a single scalar field in general relativity via conformal transformation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Taotao Qiu

A Newtonian-like theory inspired by the Brans-Dicke gravitational Lagrangian has been recently proposed in Ref. arXiv:2009.04434(v4). We propose here a new variant of this theory such that the usual Newtonian second law is preserved. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Felipe S. Escórcio , Júlio C. Fabris , Júnior D. Toniato , Hermano Velten

Recently, corrections to the standard Einstein-Hilbert action are proposed to explain the current cosmic acceleration in stead of introducing dark energy. We discuss the Palatini formulation of the modified gravity with a $\ln R$ term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Xin-He Meng , Peng Wang

We propose a novel theory of gravity that by construction is renormalizable, evades Ostragadsky's no-go theorem, is locally scale-invariant in the high-energy limit, and equivalent to general relativity in the low-energy limit. The theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-13 Daniel Coumbe

We review and extend the Gauge Vectors-Tensor gravity: a covariant theory of gravity composed of a metric and gauge fields, leading to simple second order partial differential equations of motion, whose Newtonian and strong limits coincide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-03 Qasem Exirifard

While conformal transformations in metric scalar-tensor theories recover General Relativity, this feature is notably absent in standard non-metricity-based theories. We demonstrate that by introducing the boundary term C, a non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Ghulam Murtaza , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We propose, in a heuristic way, a relativistic modified gravity model as an alternative to particle dark matter at galactic scales. The model is based on a postulated preferred time foliation described by a dynamical scalar field called the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Luc Blanchet , Sylvain Marsat

I introduce a modification of the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) model in which the flashes (or collapse space-time events) source a classical gravitational field. The resulting semi-classical theory of Newtonian gravity preserves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Antoine Tilloy