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We revisit Coincident General Relativity (CGR) in the gauge approach to gravity based on Symmetric Teleparallel Equivalent to General Relativity (STEGR) in the {\it internal-space formulation}, which one of the authors recently proposed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Kyosuke Tomonari , Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri

This chapter of the Handbook of Quantum Gravity aims to illustrate how nonlocality can be implemented in field theories, as well as the manner it solves fundamental difficulties of gravitational theories. We review Stelle's quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-11 Arnau Bas i Beneito , Gianluca Calcagni , Lesław Rachwał

We investigate the impact on cosmological observables of $f(Q)$-gravity, a specific class of modified gravity models in which gravity is described by the non-metricity scalar, $Q$. In particular we focus on a specific model which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Noemi Frusciante

This paper is devoted to examining cosmological bouncing scenarios in the framework of the recently proposed symmetric teleparallel gravity (or $f(Q)$ gravity), where the non-metricity scalar $Q$ represents the gravitational interaction. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov

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 generalized teleparallel gravity in the flat FRW universe with a viable power-law f(T) model. We construct its equation of state and deceleration parameters which give accelerated expansion of the universe in quintessence era…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Sharif , Shamaila Rani

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 reconstruct $f(R,T)$ theory (where $R$ is the scalar curvature and $T$ is the trace of energy-momentum tensor) in the framework of QCD ghost dark energy models. In this study, we concentrate on particular models of $f(R,T)$ gravity which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-14 M. Zubair , G. Abbas

We derive the affine tensor associated with the energy and momentum densities of both gravitational and matter fields, the complex pseudo-tensor, for $f(Q)$ non-metric gravity, the straightforward extension of Symmetric Teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Gaetano Lambiase

We investigate the evolution of linear perturbations in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity, namely $f(Q)$ gravity, for which we design the $f(Q)$ function to match specific expansion histories. We consider different evolutions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Inês S. Albuquerque , Noemi Frusciante

This thesis investigates late-time cosmic acceleration using modified gravity theories with a focus on $f(Q)$ gravity, as an alternative to the $\Lambda$CDM model. The standard cosmological model attributes the acceleration to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-18 S. A. Narawade

We propose a covariant ghost-free unimodular $F(R)$ gravity theory, which contains a three-form field and study its structure using the analogy of the proposed theory with a quantum system which describes a charged particle in uniform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

In this letter we point out that the massive gravity theory with a graviton ghost mode in de Sitter background cannot possess a de Sitter invariant vacuum state. In order to avoid a negative norm state, we must associate the creation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 Keisuke Izumi , Takahiro Tanaka

In this paper we introduce a modified covariant quantum algebra based in the so-called Quesne-Tkachuk algebra. By means of a deformation procedure we arrive at a class of higher derivative models of gravity. The study of the particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-06 G. P. de Brito , P. I. C. Caneda , Y. M. P. Gomes , J. T. Guaitolini Junior , V. Nikoofard

The present work studies one of Einstein's alternative formulations based on the non-metricity scalar $Q$ generalized as $f(Q)$ theory. More specifically, we consider the power-law form of $f(Q)$ gravity i.e. $f(Q)=Q+\alpha\, Q^n$. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Wompherdeiki Khyllep , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Jibitesh Dutta

We present a novel derivation of scalar cosmological perturbations in the scalar-tensor extension of non-metricity gravity, where the non-metricity scalar $Q$ is non-minimally coupled to a dynamical scalar field. While previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Ganesh Subramaniam , Avik De , Jackson Levi Said

The improved version of ghost-free $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity introduced in Phys.~Lett.~B \textbf{631} (2005), 1-6 is proposed and investigated. It is demonstrated that improved ghost-free $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity may be consistently applied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

We explore the possibility of further gravitational wave modes in $F(T)$ gravity, where $T$ is the torsion scalar in teleparallelism. It is explicitly demonstrated that gravitational wave modes in $F(T)$ gravity are equivalent to those in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Kazuharu Bamba , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Diego Sáez-Gómez

In our previous paper, we have presented a covariant BRST quantization of unimodular gravity which may account for the smallness of the cosmological constant, and have shown that the physical degrees of freedom in the theory are the same as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Taichiro Kugo , Ryuichi Nakayama , Nobuyoshi Ohta

In this study, we explore the cosmological implications of a modified gravity theory characterized by the function \( f(R, \Sigma, T) \), where \( R \) is the Ricci scalar, \( \Sigma \) represents a geometric deformation term, and \( T \)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 N. Myrzakulov , S. H. Shekh , S. R. Bhoyar , Anirudh Pradhan