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It is shown that certain aspects of gravitation may be described using a relativistic action-at-a-distance formulation. The equations of motion of the model presented are invariant under Lorentz transformations and agree with the equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Domingo J. Louis-Martinez

Modified gravity provides a possible explanation for the currently observed cosmic accelaration. In this paper, we study general classes of modified gravity models. The Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by using general functions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio De Felice , Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

We consider a discrete model of euclidean quantum gravity in four dimensions based on a summation over random simplicial manifolds. The action used is the Einstein-Hilbert action plus an $R^2$-term. The phase diagram as a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , C. F. Kristjansen

A generalization of General Relativity is studied. The standard Einstein-Hilbert action is considered in the Palatini formalism, where the connection and the metric are independent variables, and the connection is not symmetric. As a result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-21 N. V. Kharuk , S. A. Paston , A. A. Sheykin

Although general relativity (GR) passes all present experimental tests with flying colors, it remains important to study alternative theories of gravity for several theoretical and phenomenological reasons that we recall in these lecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Gilles Esposito-Farese

In the frame of multifractal theory of time and space (in this model our universe is consisting of real time and space fields and is the multifractal universe) in the works [1]-[16] some problems were analyzed: how the fractional dimensions…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ya. Kobelev

It is well known that Einstein's equations assume a simple polynomial form in the Hamiltonian framework based on a Yang-Mills phase space. We re-examine the gravitational dynamics in this framework and show that {\em time} evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Abhay Ashtekar , Madhavan Varadarajan

The paper is devoted to the motion of a body in a fluid under the influence of gravity and drag. Depending on the regime considered, the drag force can exhibit a linear, quadratic or even more general dependence on the velocity of the body…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shouryya Ray , Jochen Fröhlich

We derive the conservative part of the Lagrangian and the energy of a gravitationally bound two-body system at fourth post-Newtonian order, up to terms quadratic in the Newton constant. We also show that such terms are compatible with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

Hierarchical three-body systems offer a compelling framework to explore the subtle interplay between Newtonian and relativistic gravitational effects in astrophysical environments. In this work, we investigate post-Newtonian corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Pietro Farina , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Hideki Asada , Ivan De Martino , Riccardo Della Monica

On the basis of Lagrangian formalism of relativistic field theory post-Newtonian equations of motion for a rotating body are derived in the frame of Feynman's quantum field gravity theory (FGT) and compared with corresponding geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yurij V. Baryshev

There is now overwhelming observational evidence that our Universe is accelerating in its expansion. I discuss how modified gravitational models can provide an explanation for this observed late-time cosmic acceleration. We consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Damien A. Easson

Studying the dynamical, nonlinear regime of modified theories of gravity remains a theoretical challenge that limits our ability to test general relativity. Here we consider two generally applicable, but approximate methods for treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Maxence Corman , Luis Lehner , William E. East , Guillaume Dideron

We study the motion of a secondary celestial body under the influence of the corrected gravitational force of a primary. We study the effect of quantum and relativistic corrections to the gravitational potential of a primary body acting on…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-19 Ioannis Haranas , Omiros Ragos , Ioannis Gkigkitzis , Ilias Kotsireas

The paper extends basic Einstein--Hilbert action by adding a newly proposed invariant constructed from a specific contraction between the Einstein tensor and the energy momentum tensor, encoding a non--minimal coupling between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Mihai Marciu , Dana Maria Ioan

The conformal transformation in the Einstein - Hilbert action leads to a new frame where an extra scalar degree of freedom is compensated by the local conformal-like symmetry. We write down a most general action resulting from such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Ilya L. Shapiro , Hiroyuki Takata

We consider a general class of quantum gravity-inspired, modified gravity theories, where the Einstein-Hilbert action is extended through the addition of all terms quadratic in the curvature tensor coupled to scalar fields with standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

Within the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity we consider an action, containing up to quadratic terms of the Ricci scalar and the Holst invariant, coupled non-minimally to a scalar field, including couplings of its derivatives to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Theodoros Katsoulas , Kyriakos Tamvakis

Quadratic gravity is a well-motivated extension of general relativity~(GR) wherein the Einstein-Hilbert action is augmented by quadratic curvature terms. This theory is equivalent to GR in an effective-field-theory framework, while the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

In this work a study of the gravity is made using Einstein's equation in the post-Newtonian approach. This is a method to linearise the General Relativity indicated to treat non-relativistic objects. It enables us to construct, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 I. C. Jardim , R. R. Landim