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The universal character of the gravitational interaction provided by the equivalence principle motivates a geometrical description of gravity. The standard formulation of General Relativity \`a la Einstein attributes gravity to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-13 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi Sebastian Koivisto , Simon Pekar

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

Teleparallel gravity shares many qualitative features with general relativity, but differs from it in the following way: whereas in general relativity, gravitation is a manifestation of space-time curvature, in teleparallel gravity,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 James Owen Weatherall , Helen Meskhidze

Axially symmetric spacetimes play an important role in the relativistic description of rotating astrophysical objects like black holes, stars, etc. In gravitational theories that venture beyond the usual Riemannian geometry by allowing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-26 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Laur Järv , Christian Pfeifer

General Relativity and its higher derivative extensions have symmetric teleparallel reformulations in terms of the non-metricity tensor within a torsion-free and flat geometry. These notes present a derivation of the exact propagator for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

In teleparallel geometries, symmetries are represented by affine frame symmetries which constrain both the (co)frame basis and the spin-connection (which are the primary geometric objects). In this paper we shall study teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Alan Coley , Robert van den Hoogen

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

Due to its underlying gauge structure, teleparallel gravity achieves a separation between inertial and gravitational effects. It can, in consequence, describe the isolated gravitational interaction without resorting to the equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Aldrovandi , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

We establish the Hamiltonian formulation of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, without fixing the time gauge condition, by rigorously performing the Legendre transform. The time gauge condition, previously considered,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

We analyze the construction of conformal theories of gravity in the realm of teleparallel theories. We first present a family of conformal theories which are quadratic in the torsion tensor and are constructed out of the tetrad field and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-19 J. W. Maluf , F. F. Faria

The metric-affine variational principle is applied to generate teleparallel and symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity. From the latter is discovered an exceptional class which is consistent with a vanishing affine connection. Based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi Koivisto

We extend the class of recently formulated scalar-nonmetricity theories by coupling a five-parameter nonmetricity scalar to a scalar field and considering a mixed kinetic term between the metric and the scalar field. The symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-23 Mihkel Rünkla , Ott Vilson

The superstring and superbrane theories which include gravity as a necessary and fundamental part renew an interest to alternative representations of general relativity as well as the alternative models of gravity. We study the coframe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Yakov Itin

The Hamiltonian formulation of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) is developed from an ordinary second-order Lagrangian, which is written as a quadratic form of the coefficients of anholonomy of the orthonormal frames…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-30 Rafael Ferraro , María José Guzmán

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

Both the generalized teleparallel theories of gravity suffer from some serious problems. The strong coupling issue appearing as a consequence of extra degrees of freedom in the `generalized metric teleparallel gravity' theory, prompted to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Dalia Saha , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

The teleparallel formulation of gravity theories reveals close structural analogies to electrodynamics, which are more hidden in their usual formulation in terms of the curvature of spacetime. We show how every locally Lorentz invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Manuel Hohmann , Laur Järv , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

We study the variational principle and derivation of the field equations for different classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using both their metric-affine and covariant tetrad formulations. These theories have in common that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-22 Manuel Hohmann

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

We present the geometric foundations and derivations of equations of motion for symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity in the coincident gauge and covariant frameworks. We discuss the theoretical challenges introduced by the auxiliary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Daniel Blixt , Alexey Golovnev , Maria-Jose Guzman , Ramazan Maksyutov