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We provide a new extension of general relativity (GR) which has the remarkable property of being more constrained than GR plus a cosmological constant, having one less free parameter. This is implemented by allowing the cosmological…

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Modified General Relativity (MGR) is the natural extension of General Relativity (GR). MGR explicitly uses the smooth regular line element vector field $(\bm{X},-\bm{X}) $, which exists in all Lorentzian spacetimes, to construct a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Gary Nash

Stochastic mechanics (SM), as proposed by Edward Nelson and others in the 20th century, aims to reconstruct quantum mechanics (QM) from a more fundamental theory of classical point particles interacting with a classical-like ether, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Maaneli Derakhshani

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

This paper has been withdrawn by the author after further work showed the proposed theoretical approach cannot fit planetary perihelion precession data. As presented, the theory doesn't fit gravitational light deflection by the sun either,…

General Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

We consider the most general 11 parameter parity even quadratic Metric-Affine Theory whose action consists of the usual Einstein-Hilbert plus the 11 quadratic terms in torsion, non-metricity as well as their mixing. By following a certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Damianos Iosifidis

Tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are commonly employed as extensions of General Relativity that allow to describe a much wider phenomenology. They are also naturally generated as low energy limit of higher-dimensional or unified…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

In this paper we elaborate on the symmetric teleparallel gravity (STPG) written in a non-Riemannian spacetime with nonzero nonmetricity, but zero torsion and zero curvature. Firstly we give a prescription for obtaining the nonmetricity from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Muzaffer Adak , Özcan Sert , Mestan Kalay , Murat Sarı

The thermodynamics-gravity conjecture reveals that one can derive the gravitational field equations by using the first law of thermodynamics and vice versa. Considering the entropy associated with the horizon in the form of non-extensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Mahnaz Asghari , Ahmad Sheykhi

For (2+2)-dimensional nonholonomic distributions, the physical information contained into a spacetime (pseudo) Riemannian metric can be encoded equivalently into new types of geometric structures and linear connections constructed as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-08 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) requires all matter components to universally couple to gravity via a single common geometry: that of spacetime. This relates quantum theory with geometry as soon as interactions with gravity are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Ashkan Alibabaei

Symmetric teleparallel gravity and its $f(Q)$ extensions have emerged as promising alternatives to General Relativity (GR), yet the role of explicit geometry-matter couplings remains largely unexplored. In this work, we address this gap by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Ayush Hazarika , Simran Arora , P. K. Sahoo , Tiberiu Harko

The mantra about gravitation as curvature is a misnomer. The curvature tensor for a standard of rest does not describe acceleration in a gravitational field but the \underline{gradient} of the acceleration (e.g. geodesic deviation). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-31 Engelbert L. Schucking

Assuming that the mechanism proposed by Gell-Mann and Hartle works as a mechanism for decoherence and classicalization of the metric field, we formally derive the form of an effective theory for the gravitational field in a semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Rosario Martin , Enric Verdaguer

Einstein originally proposed a nonsymmetric tensor field, with its symmetric part associated with the spacetime metric and its antisymmetric part associated with the electromagnetic field, as an approach to a unified field theory. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 J. R. van Meter

Einstein-Strauss Hermitian gravity was recently formulated as a gauge theory where the tangent group is taken to be the pseudo-unitary group instead of the orthogonal group. A Higgs mechanism for massive gravity was also formulated. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-26 Ali H. Chamseddine , Viatcheslav Mukhanov

We show that there exist solutions to the semi-classical gravity equations in de Sitter spacetime sourced by the renormalised stress-energy tensor of a free Klein-Gordon field. For the massless scalar, solutions exist for every possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry

We continue the study of the non-metric theory of gravity introduced in hep-th/0611182 and gr-qc/0703002 and obtain its general spherically symmetric vacuum solution. It respects the analog of the Birkhoff theorem, i.e., the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Krasnov , Yuri Shtanov

We study several aspects of higher-order gravities constructed from general contractions of the Riemann tensor and the metric in arbitrary dimensions. First, we use the fast-linearization procedure presented in arXiv:1607.06463 to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Vincent S. Min , Manus R. Visser

We consider a class of modified gravity models where the terms added to the standard Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian are just a function of the metric only. For linearized perturbations around an isotropic space-time, this class of models is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Richard A. Battye , Jonathan A. Pearson