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In this Letter, we use the latest results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey to measure the Hubble constant. Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) observations released by the DESI survey, allow us to determine $H_0$…

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We here investigate the observational viability of Nash gravity as an alternative to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Based on Nash's embedding theorem, the model introduces orthogonal perturbations via variations in the extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Abraão J. S. Capistrano , Emanuelly Silva , Rafael C. Nunes , Orlando Luongo

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration has recently released measurements of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from the first year of observations. A joint analysis of DESI BAO, CMB, and SN Ia probes indicates a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Anton Chudaykin , Martin Kunz

The Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which promotes the gravitational constant to a dynamical scalar field, predicts a value for the Eddington-Robertson post-Newtonian parameter gamma that is significantly different from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-12 John W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

The recent data release by the Planck satellite collaboration presents a renewed challenge for modified theories of gravitation. Such theories must be capable of reproducing the observed angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

Motivated by the new BAO data and the significant results recently published by the DESI DR2 Collaboration, this study presents a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis of all currently viable f (R) models using this new dataset, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Francisco Plaza , Lucila Kraiselburd

Several models within the framework of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravities are considered with regard their late-time phenomenological viability. The models contain a non-minimally coupled scalar field and satisfy a constraint on the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , German S. Sharov

In this paper, we derive a 90\% credible lower bound on the modified parameter of scalar-tensor theories as $\varphi_{-2}>-7.94\times10^{-4}$ by using dominant-mode correction. Specific to BD theory, we have the constraint $\omega_{\rm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Jing Tan , Baoxiang Wang

Cosmological constraints on the scalar-tensor theory of gravity by analyzing the angular power spectrum data of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) obtained from the Planck 2015 results are presented. We consider the harmonic attractor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Junpei Ooba , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

The unimodular theory of gravity is an alternative perspective to traditional Einstein's general relativity and opens new possibilities for exploring its implications in cosmology. In this paper, we investigate the unimodular gravity (UG)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Naveen K. Singh , Gopal Kashyap

We study the variation of the gravitational Newton's constant on cosmological scales in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We focus on the simplest models of scalar-tensor theories with a coupling to the Ricci scalar of the form $F(\sigma)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Domenico Sapone

This paper investigates the cosmological implications of the modified gravity framework known as $f(R,\Sigma, T)$ gravity, focusing on its potential to unify and extend current cosmological models. The theory, introduced by Bakry and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 N. Myrzakulov , S. H. Shekh , Anirudh Pradhan

Discrepant measurements of the Universe's expansion rate ($H_0$) may signal physics beyond the standard cosmological model. Here I describe two early modified gravity mechanisms that reconcile the value of $H_0$ by increasing the expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Miguel Zumalacarregui

Scalar-tensor gravity is one of the most competitive gravity theory to Einstein's relativity. We reconstruct the exact de Sitter solution in scalar-tensor gravity, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along the potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 Hongsheng Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

In this short note we present the dynamics of a general scalar-tensor model, and in particular a scalar Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet model with a non-minimal coupling between gravity and the kinetic term of the scalar field. For the sake of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Fotis Fronimos

In this study, we explore model independent constraints on the universe kinematics up to the snap and jerk hierarchical terms. To do so, we consider the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) release provided by the DESI collaboration,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

We calculate how strongly one can constrain the alternative theories of gravity with deci-Hz gravitational wave interferometers such as DECIGO and BBO. Here we discuss Brans-Dicke theory and massive graviton theories as typical examples. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kent Yagi , Takahiro Tanaka

We consider a model of early modified gravity (EMG) that was recently proposed as a candidate to resolve the Hubble tension. The model consists in a scalar field $\sigma$ with a non-minimal coupling (NMC) to the Ricci curvature of the form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Guillermo Franco Abellán , Matteo Braglia , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Vivian Poulin

Modified cosmology based on Barrow entropy arises from the gravity-thermodynamics conjecture, in which the standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is replaced by the Barrow entropy of quantum-gravitational origin, characterized by the Barrow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-08 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate the cosmological implications of a tanh-parametrized scalar field model in the framework of modified $f(Q, L_{m})$ gravity by adopting the form $f(Q, L_{m})=\beta Q+\delta L_{m}$ along with a scalar field energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Amit Samaddar , S. Surendra Singh