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Gravity is so different from other fundamental forces that it is now essentially treated as a non-fundamental force of entropic origin. A number of good studies have been carried out in this direction. Quantum gravity has also significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-11 M. Hameeda , Q. Gani , B. Pourhassan , M. C. Rocca

We derive rigorous bounds on corrections to Einstein gravity using unitarity and analyticity of graviton scattering amplitudes. In $D\geq 4$ spacetime dimensions, these consistency conditions mandate positive coefficients for certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Brando Bellazzini , Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

Modifications of general relativity provide an alternative explanation to dark energy for the observed acceleration of the universe. We review recent developments in modified gravity theories, focusing on higher dimensional approaches and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bhuvnesh Jain , Justin Khoury

We study quantum corrections at the horizon scale of a black hole induced by a Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) with a quadratic term in the momentum. The interplay between quantum mechanics and gravity manifests itself into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Luca Buoninfante , Gaetano Lambiase , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Luciano Petruzziello

In the paper, only Static Spherically Symmetric space-times in four dimensions are considered within modified gravity models. The non-singular static metrics, including black holes not admitting a de Sitter core in the center and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 A. S. Agrawal , Sergio Zerbini , B. Mishra

Quantum inequalities are bounds on negative time-averages of the energy density of a quantum field. They can be used to rule out exotic spacetimes in general relativity. We study quantum inequalities for a scalar field with a background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Eleni-Alexandra Kontou , Ken D. Olum

We suggest a scheme for considering the quantum correction of the gravitational constant. In the model, the gravitational constant originates from a coupling of the gravitational field with a scalar field. In this paper, we show that if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Yu-Jie Chen , Shi-Lin Li , Yu-Zhu Chen , Wen-Du Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

Unifying quantum theory and gravity remains a fundamental challenge in physics. While most existing literature focuses on the ultraviolet (UV) modifications of quantum theory due to gravity, this work shows that generic infrared (IR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Mytraya Gattu , S. Shankaranarayanan

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

We have estimated higher order quantum gravity corrections to de~Sitter spacetime. Our results suggest that, while the classical spacetime metric may be distorted by the graviton self-interactions, the corrections are relatively weaker than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. D. Dolgov , M. B. Einhorn , V. I. Zakharov

Modifications to gravity that add additional functions of the Ricci curvature to the Einstein-Hilbert action -- collectively known as $f(R)$ theories -- have been studied in great detail. When considered as complete theories of gravity they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

Basing on the results obtained in a our previous study on Gravity's Rainbow, we determine the quantum corrections to the space-time metric for the Schwarzschild and the de Sitter background, respectively. We analyze how quantum fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Remo Garattini , Gianluca Mandanici

Analogous to magnetism in electrodynamics, it is gravitomagnetism in relativistic gravity. Since gravity determines locally inertial frames, in general relativity (GR) and other relativistic theories of gravity, frame-dragging with source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Dongfeng Gao , Wei-Tou Ni

Gravity field theory and electromagnetic field theory are well established and confirmed by experiments. The Schwarzschild metric and Kerr Metric of Einstein field equation shows that the spatial differential of time gauge is the gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Jianhua

Quantum treatment of physical reference frame leads to the Ricci flow of quantum spacetime, which is a quite rigid framework to quantum and renormalization effect of gravity. The theory has a low characteristic energy scale described by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-27 M. J. Luo

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

We discuss quantum inequalities for minimally coupled scalar fields in static spacetimes. These are inequalities which place limits on the magnitude and duration of negative energy densities. We derive a general expression for the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Michael J. Pfenning , L. H. Ford

Based on the perspective that continuum gravitational physics is an emergent quantum gravitational phenomenon, and that spacetime thermodynamic is the natural langauge in which it can be described, we derive a modified Schwarzschild-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Luca Marchetti , Giancarlo Cella

The observed acceleration of the universe, explained through dark energy, could alternatively be explained through a modification of gravity that would also induce modifications in the evolution of cosmological perturbations. We use new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-16 Ismael Tereno , Elisabetta Semboloni , Tim Schrabback

We consider metric-affine scenarios where a modified gravitational action is sourced by electrovacuum fields in a three dimensional space-time. Such scenarios are supported by the physics of crystalline structures with microscopic defects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-13 Cosimo Bambi , M. Ghasemi-Nodehi , D. Rubiera-Garcia