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We derive an exact $f(T)$ gravity in the absence of ordinary matter in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe, where $T$ is the teleparallel torsion scalar. We show that vanishing of the energy-momentum tensor $\mathcal{T}^{\mu \nu}$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 W. El Hanafy , G. L. Nashed

Symmetric teleparallel gravity is one among the general relativistic trinity which deals with the non-metricity scalar $Q$. In the Einstein Hilbert action, a function of $Q$ is chosen to be the main contributory part of the Lagrangian and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-30 Promila Biswas , Subhajit Pal , Ritabrata Biswas , Satyajit Pal

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

A generalized teleparallel cosmological model, $f(T_\mathcal{G},T)$, containing the torsion scalar $T$ and the teleparallel counterpart of the Gauss-Bonnet topological invariant $T_{\mathcal{G}}$, is studied in the framework of the Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos

We investigate the cosmological implications of $f(Q)$ gravity, which is a modified theory of gravity based on non-metricity, in non-flat geometry. We perform a detailed dynamical-system analysis keeping the $f(Q)$ function completely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-26 Hamid Shabani , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study a cosmological model in the framework of teleparallel gravity, where a vector field $A_\mu$ is non-minimally coupled to the torsion scalar $T$ in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. Using the Noether symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Yusuf Kucukakca , Fereshteh Omidvar , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh

f(Q) gravity is the extension of symmetric teleparallel general relativity (STGR), in which both curvature and torsion vanish, and gravity is attributed to nonmetricity. This work performs theoretical analyses of static and spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Wenyi Wang , Hua Chen , Taishi Katsuragawa

We solve the gravitational field equations for a static, spherically symmetric spacetime within the framework of the symmetric teleparallel theory of gravity. Specifically, we derive new solutions within the context of power-law $f(Q)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Nikolaos Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Theodosios Christodoulakis

We present a generalization of teleparallel gravity that is consistent with local spacetime kinematics regulated by the de Sitter group $SO(1,4)$. The mathematical structure of teleparallel gravity is shown to be given by a nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 H. Jennen , J. G. Pereira

We establish a new no-go theorem for cosmology: spatially flat ($k=0$) and open ($k=-1$) Friedmann--Robertson--Walker (FRW) non-static spacetimes cannot be simultaneously nonsingular, geodesically complete, and consistent with the averaged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Nathan L. Burwig , Damien A. Easson

We investigate static and spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in the symmetric teleparallel $f(\mathbb{Q})$ modified theory of gravity. Starting from a recently proposed classification of affine connections compatible with both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 A. Dehyadegari , A. Sheykhi

We present teleparallel 3D gravity and we extract circularly symmetric solutions, showing that they coincide with the BTZ and Deser-de-Sitter solutions of standard 3D gravity. However, extending into f(T) 3D gravity, that is considering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 P. A. Gonzalez , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yerko Vasquez

Symmetric teleparallel gravity is constructed with a nonzero nonmetricity tensor while both torsion and curvature are vanishing. In this framework, we find exact scalarised spherically symmetric static solutions in scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Laur Järv , Joosep Lember

Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We consider homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models in the framework of three geometrical theories of gravitation: in the Einstein general relativity they are given in terms of the curvature of the Levi-Civita connection in torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Laur Järv , Piret Kuusk

Symmetric teleparallel gravity (STG) is a gravity theory which takes non-metricity tensor to describe gravity effects. In the STG framework, we study the conformal equivalent scalar-tensor theory of f(Q) model and calculate the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Dehao Zhao

We investigate the impact of conformal transformations on the physical properties of solution trajectories in nonmetricity gravity. Specifically, we explore the phase-space and reconstruct the cosmological history of a spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Nikolaos Dimakis , Kevin Duffy , Alex Giacomini , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Teleparallel geometry utilizes Weitzenb\"ock connection which has nontrivial torsion but no curvature and does not directly follow from the metric like Levi-Civita connection. In extended teleparallel theories, for instance in $f(T)$ or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Laur Järv , Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

The cosmology of metric-affine gravity is studied for the general, parity preserving action quadratic in curvature, torsion and non-metricity. The model contains 27 a priori independent couplings in addition to the Einstein constant. Linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Thomas Dyer , Will Barker , Damianos Iosifidis

The study of cosmological perturbation theory in $f(T)$ gravity is a topic of great interest in teleparallel gravity since this is one of the simplest generalizations of the theory that modifies the teleparallel equivalent of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sebastian Bahamonde , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Manuel Hohmann , Jackson Levi Said , Christian Pfeifer , Emmanuel N. Saridakis