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Teleparallel gravity offers a new avenue in which to construct gravitational models beyond general relativity. While teleparallel gravity can be framed in a way to be dynamically equivalent to general relativity, its modifications are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-28 Sebastian Bahamonde , Viktor Gakis , Stella Kiorpelidi , Tomi Koivisto , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In the last dozen years a wide and variegated mass of observational data revealed that the universe is now expanding at an accelerated rate. In the absence of a well-based theory to interpret the observations, cosmography provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Ester Piedipalumbo , Enrica Della Moglie , Roberto Cianci

Within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f\left( Q\right) $-gravity for a connection defined in the non-coincidence gauge we derive the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of quantum cosmology. Because the gravitational field equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Andronikos Paliathanasis

Teleparallel gravity, a gauge theory for the translation group, turns up as fully equivalent to Einstein's general relativity. In spite of this equivalence, it provides a whole new insight into gravitation. It breaks several paradigms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 J. G. Pereira

Symmetric teleparallel gravity offers to reformulate the gravitational formalism without the presence of curvature and torsion with the help of non-metricity tensors. Interestingly, Symmetric teleparallel gravity can be formulated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Gaurav N. Gadbail , Ameya Kolhatkar , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

The $f(T)$ gravity is one of the extensions of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, in which more general functions of the torsion scalar $T$ can be described. With the proposed functional form of $f(T) = \alpha T - \beta u^{-n} +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Suraj Kumar Behera , S. A. Kadam , Pratik P. Ray , B. Mishra

We present a theoretical analysis of the WDW approach to quantum cosmology extended to gravity theories with torsion. The dynamics of the FLRW universe is formulated as a classical Hamiltonian problem of point particle mechanics. Unlike in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Juergen Struckmeier

This thesis investigates the characteristics of modified teleparallel gravity models that incorporate a scalar field and a trace of the energy-momentum tensor, with particular attention to their cosmological effects, especially regarding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 L K Duchaniya

We extend the treatment of quantum cosmology to a manifold with torsion. We adopt a model of Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble compatible with the cosmological principle. The universe wavefunction will be subject to a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 Ammar Kasem , Shaaban Khalil

In this work, we consider an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity, namely, $f(Q)$ gravity, where the fundamental block to describe spacetime is the nonmetricity, $Q$. Within this formulation of gravitation, we perform an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-15 Ruth Lazkoz , Francisco S. N. Lobo , María Ortiz-Baños , Vincenzo Salzano

Being based on the only assumption that the universe is homogenous and isotropic on large scales, cosmography is an ideal tool to investigate the cosmic expansion history in a almost model-independent way. Fitting the data on the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , H. Farajollahi , A. Ravanpak

Symmetric teleparallel gravity theories, in which the gravitational interaction is attributed to the nonmetricity of a flat, symmetric, but not metric-compatible affine connection, have been a topic of growing interest in recent studies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-03 Manuel Hohmann

The present work deals with the classical and quantum aspects of the Raychaudhuri equation in the framework of f(T)-gravity theory. In the background of homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker space time, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Madhukrishna Chakraborty , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this paper, we explore the model of $f(Q,T)$ gravity, an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity where the nonmetricity scalar $Q$ is non-minimally coupled to the trace of the energy-momentum tensor $T$. To ensure general covariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Rahul Bhagat , Santosh V. Lohakare , B. Mishra

We investigate the cosmological applications of $F(T,T_G)$ gravity, which is a novel modified gravitational theory based on the torsion invariant $T$ and the teleparallel equivalent of the Gauss-Bonnet term $T_{G}$. $F(T,T_{G})$ gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-29 Georgios Kofinas , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We developed the cosmological linear theory of perturbations for $f(Q,T)$ gravity, which is an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity, with $Q$ the non-metricity and $T$ the trace of the stress-energy tensor. By considering an ansatz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-11 Antonio Nájera , Amanda Fajardo

We consider the cosmology of a brane-world scenario in the framework of teleparallel and $f(T)$ gravity in a way that matter is localized on the brane. We show that the cosmology of such branes is different from the standard cosmology in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-02 K. Atazadeh , A. Eghbali

This work investigates the dynamical evolution of the universe within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f(Q,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, where $Q$ is the non-metricity scalar and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 S. H. Shekh , S. B. Thool , Pankaj Kumar , P. C. Kalan , R. M. Dhaigude

We consider quantum gravity model with the squared curvature action. We construct lattice discretization of the model (both on hypercubic and simplicial lattices) starting from its teleparallel equivalent. The resulting lattice models have…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Zubkov

In recent years, $f(Q)$ gravity has enjoyed considerable attention in the literature and important results have been obtained. However, the question of how many physical degrees of freedom the theory propagates -- and how this number may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-07 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Lavinia Heisenberg , Stefan Zentarra