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In the context of modified teleparallel gravity, we study the generation of primordial density fluctuations in a general scalar-torsion theory whose Lagrangian density is an arbitrary function $f(T,\phi)$ of the torsion scalar $T$ and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Giovanni Otalora

Teleparallel gravity, an empirically equivalent counterpart to General Relativity, represents the influence of gravity using torsional forces. It raises questions about theory interpretation and underdetermination. To better understand the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Helen Meskhidze , James Owen Weatherall

In teleparallelism one is able to tackle the gravitational energy and angular momentum problems in a way that distinguishes this theory from other theories of gravity, such as general relativity. However, unlike the $4$-momentum, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 J. B. Formiga , R. D. Costa

In the context of a gauge theory for the translation group, we have obtained, for a spinless particle, a gravitational analog of the Lorentz force. Then, we have shown that this force equation can be rewritten in terms of magnitudes related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 V. C. de Andrade , J. G. Pereira

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

The cosmological propagation of tensor perturbations is studied in the context of parity-violating extensions of the symmetric teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity theory. This non-Riemannian formulation allows for a wider variety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

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 general relativity, the only dynamical field describing the gravitational interaction of matter, is the metric. It induces the causal structure of spacetime, governs the motion of physical bodies through its Levi-Civita connection, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Manuel Hohmann

The transformation properties of the gravitational energy-momentum in the teleparallel gravity are analyzed. It is proved that the gravitational energy-momentum in the teleparallel gravity can be expressed in terms of the Lorentz gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Y. Chee , Ye Zhang , Yongxin Guo

In this Letter we consider a general quadratic parity-preserving theory for a general flat connection. Imposing a local symmetry under the general linear group singles out the general teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity carrying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Damianos Iosifidis , Alejandro Jiménez-Cano , Tomi S. Koivisto

We examine whether the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) can be formulated as a gauge theory in the language of connections on principal bundles. We argue in favor of using either the affine bundle with the Poincar\'e…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Sebastian Brezina , Eugenia Boffo , Martin Krššák

f(T) gravity is a generalization of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), where T is the torsion scalar made up of the Weitzenb\"{o}ck connection. This connection describes a spacetime with zero curvature but with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-19 María José Guzmán , Rafael Ferraro

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

Over the past decades, the role of torsion in gravity has been extensively investigated along the main direction of bringing gravity closer to its gauge formulation and incorporating spin in a geometric description. Here we review various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-09 Yi-Fu Cai , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We derive the gravitational waves for $f\left(T, B\right)$ gravity, an extension of teleparallel gravity containing the torsion scalar $T$ and the boundary term $B$, and demonstrate that it is equivalent to $f(R)$ gravity. Gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Loredana Caso

There is a growing interest in modified gravity theories based on torsion, as these theories exhibit interesting cosmological implications. In this work, inspired by the teleparallel formulation of general relativity, we present its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 P. A. Gonzalez , Yerko Vasquez

Spin-2, spin-1 and spin-0 modes in linearised teleparallelism are obtained where the totally skew-symmetric complex contortion tensor generates scalar torsion waves and the symmetric contortion in the last two indices generates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We describe the fully gauge invariant cosmological perturbation equations in braneworld teleparallel gravity. In this theory, perturbations are the result of small fluctuations in the pentad field. We derive the gauge invariant 'potentials'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 A. Behboodi , S. Akhshabi , K. Nozari

Arbitrary generalization to the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity loses local Lorentz invariance to reparametrize the orthonormal coordinate system and gives rise to asymmetry field equations. We investigate consequences of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-07 Yi-Peng Wu

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