English
Related papers

Related papers: One-loop kernels in scale-dependent Horndeski theo…

200 papers

We present constraints on Horndeski gravity from a combined analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering from $450\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey.…

We determine the conditions for which the constraints from lunar laser ranging on the time evolution of the local gravitational constant can be extrapolated to impose constraints on the time evolution of the cosmological gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Clare Burrage , Johannes Dombrowski

The method of 'covariant perturbation theory' allowed for the computation of the kernel of the evolution equation on a spin Riemannian manifold. The proposed axiomatic definition of the effective action introduces the universal scale…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Yuri Vladimirovich Gusev

Gravitational waves (GW) are generally affected by modification of a gravity theory during propagation in cosmological distance. We numerically perform a quantitative analysis on Horndeski theory at cosmological scale to constrain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 Shun Arai , Atsushi Nishizawa

The Horndeski action is the most general one involving a metric and a scalar field that leads to second-order field equations in four dimensions. Being the natural extension of the well-known scalar-tensor theories, its structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-16 Dario Bettoni

We derive the one-loop perturbation kernels for a minimal modified gravity model in which dark energy is coupled to dark matter via a constant coupling. We derive the time-dependent kernels via analytical and numerical solutions and provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Bilal Tüdes , Luca Amendola

In the previous paper [arXiv:2210.10435], the nonlinear perturbation theory of cosmological density field is generalized to include the tensor-valued bias of astronomical objects, such as spins and shapes of galaxies and any other tensors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

Linear cosmological perturbations of a large class of modified gravity and dark energy models can be unified in the effective field theory of cosmic acceleration, encompassing Horndeski scalar-tensor theories and beyond. The fully available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 Lucas Lombriser , Andy Taylor

The ghost-free theory of massive gravity with two dynamical metrics has been shown to produce viable cosmological expansion, where the late-time acceleration of the Universe is due to the finite range of the gravitational interaction rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Adam R. Solomon , Yashar Akrami , Tomi S. Koivisto

We derive the kernels and the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure counterterms for the one-loop bispectrum of dark matter and of biased tracers in real and redshift space. This requires the expansion of biased tracers up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Guido D'Amico , Yaniv Donath , Matthew Lewandowski , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang

The bispectrum, the three-point function of density fluctuations in Fourier space, is the lowest order statistic that carries information about the spatial coherence of large-scale structures. For Gaussian initial conditions, when the…

The method of covariant perturbation theory allowed for the computation of the kernel of the evolution equation on a spin Riemannian manifold. The proposed axiomatic definition of the covariant effective action introduces the universal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Yuri Vladimirovich Gusev

The evolution kernels that govern the scale dependence of the generalized parton distributions are invariant under transformations of the $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathrm R)$ collinear subgroup of the conformal group. Beyond one loop the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Yao Ji , Alexander Manashov , Sven-Olaf Moch

We study the nonlinear evolution of density perturbations in cosmologies where the late-time accelerated expansion is driven by a quintessence field with vanishing speed of sound. For these models matter and quintessence perturbations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guido D'Amico , Emiliano Sefusatti

A new and promising avenue was recently developed for analyzing large-scale structure data with a model-independent approach, in which the linear power spectrum shape is parametrized with a large number of freely varying wavebands rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 Luca Amendola , Marco Marinucci , Massimo Pietroni , Miguel Quartin

We study implications of exact conformal invariance of scalar quantum field theories at the critical point in non-integer dimensions for the evolution kernels of the light-ray operators in physical (integer) dimensions. We demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-20 V. M. Braun , A. N. Manashov

We establish the existence of time-dependent solitons in a modified gravity framework, which is defined by the low energy limit of theories with a weakly broken galileon symmetry and a mass term. These are regular vacuum configurations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Juan Barranco , Javier Chagoya , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Gustavo Niz , Armando A. Roque

We study the bispectrum of the matter density perturbations induced by the large scale structure formation in the most general second-order scalar-tensor theory that may possess the Vainshtein mechanism as a screening mechanism. On the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 Yuichiro Takushima , Ayumu Terukina , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Redshift space distortions caused by galaxy peculiar velocities provide a window onto the growth rate of large scale structure and a method for testing general relativity. We investigate through a comparison of N-body simulations to various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Juliana Kwan , Geraint F. Lewis , Eric V. Linder

In theories with derivative (self-)interactions, the propagation of perturbations on nontrivial field configurations is determined by effective metrics. Generalized scalar-tensor theories belong in this class and this implies that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-07 Robert Benkel , Nicola Franchini , Mehdi Saravani , Thomas P. Sotiriou