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The standard cosmological model is based on general relativity and includes dark matter and dark energy. An important prediction of this model is a fixed relationship between the gravitational potentials responsible for gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang , Michele Liguori , Rachel Bean , Scott Dodelson

We compute the complete post-Newtonian limit of the metric form of f(R) gravities using a scalar-tensor representation. By comparing the predictions of these theories with laboratory and solar system experiments, we find a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Gonzalo J. Olmo

We investigate FLRW cosmology in the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity with a nonminimal coupling between dark matter and the gravitational field. In the noncoincidence gauge, the field equations admit an equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 A. Abebe , P. S. Apostolopoulos , A. Giacomini , G. Leon , F. Moncada , A. Paliathanasis

We describe a novel procedure to map the field equations of nonlinear Ricci-based metric-affine theories of gravity, coupled to scalar matter described by a given Lagrangian, into the field equations of General Relativity coupled to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Victor I. Afonso , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Emanuele Orazi , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We study the late time cosmological evolution of $f(R)$ theories of modified gravity, with the matter content of the universe being that of collisional self interacting matter. We assume that the universe is described by a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 V. K. Oikonomou , N. Karagiannakis

The dynamics of perfect fluid as a source in the context of modified gravity, specifically $f(Q,T)$ gravity, are examined within the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model. This gravity is a generic function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-02 S. H. Shekh , Anirudh Pradhan , S. P. Gaikwad , K. R. Mule

A modified Mimetic gravity (MMG) is proposed as a generalization of general relativity. The model contain a physical metric which is function of an auxiliary (unphysical) metric and a Lyra's metric. We construct different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Davood Momeni , Aziza Altaibayeva , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We discuss recent results on the cosmology of extended theories of gravity formulated in the Palatini approach, i.e., assuming that metric and connection are independent fields. In particular, we focus on the attempts to explain the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-23 Gonzalo J. Olmo

Subject of this article is the relationship between modern cosmology and fundamental physics, in particular general relativity as a theory of gravity on one side, together with its unique application in cosmology, and the formation of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We study the cosmology of a quadratic metric-compatible torsionful gravity theory in the presence of a perfect hyperfluid. The gravitational action is an extension of the Einstein-Cartan theory given by the usual Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-07 Damianos Iosifidis , Lucrezia Ravera

In this paper, we have presented bulk viscous cosmological model of the universe in the modified gravity theory in which the Lagragian of the gravitational action contains a general function $f(R, T) $, where $R$ and $T$ denote the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-05 Partha Sarathi Debnath

In this work, we investigate the cosmological dynamics of the $f(R, \mathcal{L}_m)$ gravity framework with a particular focus on the contributions of the scalar field. Considering a functional form that includes linear and exponential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Y. Kalpana Devi , Rahul Bhagat , B. Mishra

Gravity theory is the basis of modern cosmological models. Thirring-Feynman's tensor field approach to gravitation is an alternative to General Relativity (GR). Though Field Gravity (FG) approach is still developing subject, it opens new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Yurij Baryshev

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

In recent years, modifications to General Relativity (GR) have been explored to address cosmological observations, particularly in the context of late-time cosmic acceleration. Among these, modifications based on the Teleparallel Equivalent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Saurabh Verma , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M. S. Barak

We derive the equations of linear cosmological perturbations for the general Lagrangian density $f (R,\phi, X)/2+L_c$, where $R$ is a Ricci scalar, $\phi$ is a scalar field, and $X=-(\nabla \phi)^2/2$ is a field kinetic energy. We take into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama , Shinji Tsujikawa

Many effective field theories describing gravity cannot arise from an underlying theory based on Riemann geometry or its extensions to include torsion and nonmetricity but may instead emerge from another geometry or may have a nongeometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Alan Kostelecky , Zonghao Li

There has been growing interest in $f(Q)$ gravity, which has led to significant advancements in the field. However, it is important to note that most studies in this area were based on the coincident gauge, thus overlooking the impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Lavinia Heisenberg , Manuel Hohmann , Simon Kuhn

We propose a new formulation of $f(R)$ gravity, dubbed scalarized $f(R)$ gravity, in which the Legendre transform is included as a dynamical term. This leads to a theory with second-order field equations that describes general relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Spiros Cotsakis , Jose P. Mimoso , John Miritzis

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