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The accelerated expansion of the universe poses a significant challenge to General Relativity. Non-local modifications to gravity have emerged as a compelling class of theories to address this dark energy puzzle. Building upon earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

Nonlocal quantum corrections to gravity have been recently proposed as a possible solution to the cosmological fine tuning problems. We study the dynamics of a class of nonlocal actions defined by a function of the inverse d'Alembertian of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomi Koivisto

We consider cosmological properties of modified gravity with nonlocal term $ R^p\mathcal{F}(\Box)R^q$ in its Lagrangian. Equations of motion are presented. For the flat FLRW metric, and some particular values of natural numbers $p$ and $q$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 Ivan Dimitrijevic

In this thesis we are interested in the problem of dark energy in cosmology. In particular, we consider the possibility that this effect is due to an infrared non-local modification of the theory of General Relativity. Inspired by massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 Ermis Mitsou

In this paper, we study non-local $F(R)$-mimetic gravity. We implement mimetic gravity in the framework of non-local $F(R)$-theories of gravity. Given some specific class of models and using a potential on the mimetic field, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

This thesis is devoted to the study of gravitational theories which can be seen as modifications or generalisations of General Relativity. The motivation for considering such theories, stemming from Cosmology, High Energy Physics and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-10 Thomas P. Sotiriou

f(R)-gravity with geometric torsion (not related to any spin fluid) is considered in a cosmological context. We derive the field equations in vacuum and in presence of perfect-fluid matter and discuss the related cosmological models.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-21 S. Capozziello , R. Cianci , C. Stornaiolo , S. Vignolo

In this paper, we briefly review highlights of nonlocal de Sitter gravity based on the nonlocal term $ \sqrt{R - 2\Lambda}\ \mathcal{F}(\Box)\ \sqrt{R - 2\Lambda }$ in the Einstein-Hilbert action without matter sector. This nonlocal de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Ivan Dimitrijevic , Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic , Jelena Stankovic

Metric theories of gravity are studied, beginning with a general action that is quadratic in curvature and allows infinite inverse powers of the d'Alembertian operator, resulting in infrared non-local extensions of general relativity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Aindriu Conroy , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar , Ali Teimouri

In this work, we analyzed the improved Deser-Woodard non-local gravity over the background of five different bouncing cosmologies, whose premise is avoid the initial singular state of the universe. We developed the numerical solution for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 D. Jackson , R. Bufalo

Non-local $f(R)$ gravity was proposed as a powerfull alternative to general relativity (GR) . This theory has potentially adverse implications for infrared (IR) regime as well as ultraviolent(UV) early epochs. However, there are a lot of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Davood Momeni , H. Gholizade , Muhammad Raza , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We study accelerating cosmological solutions of a general class of non-linear gravities which depend on Gauss-Bonnet and other higher derivative invariants. To achieve this goal a local formulation with auxiliary scalars for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 Salvatore Capozziello , Emilio Elizalde , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

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

Among many alternative gravitational theories to General Relativity (GR), $f(R,T)$ gravity (where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ the trace of the energy-momentum tensor) has been widely studied recently. By adding a matter contribution to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Hermano Velten , Thiago R. P. Caramês

A general approach to find out exact cosmological solutions in f(R)-gravity is discussed. Instead of taking into account phenomenological models, we assume, as a physical criterium, the existence of Noether symmetries in the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-10 Salvatore Capozziello , Antonio De Felice

We consider nonlocal gravity theories that include tensor nonlocalities. We show that in the cosmological context, the tensor nonlocalities, unlike scalar ones, generically give rise to growing modes. An explicit example with quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pedro G. Ferreira , Antonio L. Maroto

A nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation is constructed within the framework of the translational gauge theory of gravity. In the linear approximation, the nonlocal theory can be interpreted as linearized general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Friedrich W. Hehl , Bahram Mashhoon

The issues of quintessence and cosmic acceleration can be discussed in the framework of $F(R, {\cal G})$ theories of gravity where $R$ is the Ricci curvature scalar and ${\cal G}$ is the Gauss-Bonnet topological invariant. It is possible to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-06 Mariafelicia De Laurentis

General relativistic cosmology cannot be reduced to linear relativistic perturbations superposed on an isotropic and homogeneous (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker) background, even though such a simple scheme has been successfully applied to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eleonora Villa , Licia Verde , Sabino Matarrese

We describe gauge theories which allow to retrieve a large class of gravitational theories, including, MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and its topological extension to Loop Quantum Gravity via the Pontrjagin characteristic class involving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 J. Thibaut , S. Lazzarini