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The weak equivalence principle is one of the cornerstone of general relativity. Its validity has been tested with impressive precision in the Solar System, with experiments involving baryonic matter and light. However, on cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Camille Bonvin , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Pierre Fleury

One of the cornerstones of general relativity is the equivalence principle. However, the validity of the equivalence principle has only been established on solar system scales for standard matter fields; this result cannot be assumed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Obinna Umeh , Kazuya Koyama , Robert Crittenden

The equivalence principle, that is one of the main pillars of general relativity, is very well tested in the Solar system; however, its validity is more uncertain on cosmological scales, or when dark matter is concerned. This article shows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Camille Bonvin , Pierre Fleury

The Einstein Equivalence Principle is a fundamental principle of the theory of General Relativity. While this principle has been thoroughly tested with standard matter, the question of its validity in the Dark sector remains open. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-22 N. Mohapi , A. Hees , J. Larena

While the (weak) Equivalence Principle (EP) has been rigorously tested within the solar system, its validity on cosmological scales, particularly in the context of dark matter and dark energy, remains uncertain. In this study, we propose a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Guoyuan Lu , Yi Zheng , Le Zhang , Xiaodong Li , Jiacheng Ding , Kwan Chuen Chan

We investigate how the cosmological Euler equation can be tested in the presence of viscous dark matter, violations of the equivalence principle (EP), and modifications of gravity, while relying on minimal theoretical assumptions. Extending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ziyang Zheng , Malte Schneider , Luca Amendola

While tested to a high level of accuracy in the Solar system, general relativity is under the spotlight of both theoreticians and observers on larger scales, mainly because of the need to introduce dark matter and dark energy in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jean-Philippe Uzan

Dark energy in General Relativity is typically non-interacting with other matter. However, it is possible that the dark energy interacts with the dark matter, and in this case, the dark matter can violate the universality of free fall (the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazuya Koyama , Roy Maartens , Yong-Seon Song

We combine measurements of galaxy velocities from galaxy surveys with measurements of the Weyl potential from the Dark Energy Survey to test the consistency of General Relativity at cosmological scales. Taking the ratio of two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Nastassia Grimm , Camille Bonvin , Isaac Tutusaus

Tensor-scalar theory is a wide class of alternative theory of gravitation that can be motivated by higher dimensional theories, by models of dark matter or dark ernergy. In the general case, the scalar field will couple non-universally to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 A. Hees , O. Minazzoli , E. Savalle , Y. V. Stadnik , P. Wolf , B. Roberts

Clusters of galaxies have been used to measure a subtle effect predicted by Einstein: gravitational redshift. This signal encodes pristine information about our Universe, since it is sensitive to the depth of the clusters' gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Enea Di Dio , Sveva Castello , Camille Bonvin

We study the equivalence principle, regarded as the cornerstone of general relativity, by analyzing the deformation observable of black hole shadows. Such deformation can arise from new physics and may be expressed as a phenomenological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Chunlong Li , Sheng-Feng Yan , Lingqin Xue , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Ye-Fei Yuan , Hongsheng Zhao

We show how one can test the cosmological Poisson equation by requiring only the validity of three main assumptions: the energy-momentum conservation equations of matter, the equivalence principle, and the cosmological principle. We first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Ziyang Zheng , Ziad Sakr , Luca Amendola

We perform null tests of the concordance model, using $H(z)$ measurements that mimic next-generation surveys such as Euclid and the SKA. To this end, we deploy a non-parametric method, so that we make minimal assumptions about the fiducial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Chris Clarkson , Martin Kunz , Roy Maartens

Consistency relations of large-scale structure offer a unique and powerful test of the weak equivalence principle (EP) on cosmological scales. If the EP is violated, different tracers will undergo different accelerations in response to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Lawrence Dam , Omar Darwish

Although general relativity underlies modern cosmology, its applicability on cosmological length scales has yet to be stringently tested. Such a test has recently been proposed, using a quantity, EG, that combines measures of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-11 Reinabelle Reyes , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , James E. Gunn , Lucas Lombriser , Robert E. Smith

The main science driver for the coming generation of cosmological surveys is understanding dark energy which relies on testing General Relativity on the largest scales. Once we move beyond the simplest explanation for dark energy of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-13 Felipe Oliveira Franco , Camille Bonvin , Chris Clarkson

A wide range of models describing modifications to General Relativity have been proposed, but no fundamental parameter set exists to describe them. Similarly, no fundamental theory exists for dark energy to parameterize its potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Viviana Acquaviva , Eric Gawiser

Nowadays, thanks to the improved precision of cosmological data, it has been possible to search for deviation from the general relativity theory with tests on large cosmic scales. Particularly, there is a class of modified gravity theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , S. Santos-da-Costa

The standard concordance model of the Universe is based on the cosmological constant as the driver of accelerating expansion. This concordance model is being subjected to a growing range of inter-locking observations. In addition to using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sahba Yahya , Marina Seikel , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens , Mathew Smith
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