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As an important candidate gravity theory alternative to dark energy, a class of $f(R)$ modified gravity, which introduces a perturbation of the Ricci scalar $R$ in the Einstein-Hilbert action, has been extensively applied to cosmology to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Tengpeng Xu , Shuo Cao , Jingzhao Qi , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Zong-Hong Zhu

We perform a validation of estimates of the growth rate of structure, described by the parameter combination $f\sigma_8$, in modified gravity cosmologies. We consider an analysis pipeline based on the redshift-space distortion modelling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Alexandre Barreira , Ariel G. Sánchez , Fabian Schmidt

Bimetric gravity is an interesting alternative to standard GR given its potential to provide a concrete theoretical framework for a ghost-free massive gravity theory. Here we investigate a class of Bimetric gravity models for their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ajay Bassi , Shahnawaz A. Adil , Manvendra Pratap Rajvanshi , Anjan A. Sen

The growth rate of the large-scale structure of the universe has been advocated as the observable par excellence for testing gravity on cosmological scales. By considering linear-order deviations from General Relativity, we show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-12 Tessa Baker , Pedro G. Ferreira , Constantinos Skordis

In this work, we use the dynamical system approach to explore the cosmological background evolution of the scalar-tensor representation of $f(R,T)$ gravity, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ is the trace of the stress-energy tensor. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Tiago B. Gonçalves , João Luís Rosa , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Recent observational analyses have revealed a significant tension in the growth index $\gamma$, which characterizes the growth rate of cosmic structures. Specifically, when treating $\gamma$ as a free parameter within $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Luis A. Escamilla , Özgür Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino , Emre Özülker , J. Alberto Vazquez

The growth index $\gamma_L$ was proposed to investigate the possible deviation from the standard $\Lambda$CDM model and Einstein's gravity theory in a dynamical perspective. Recently, thanks to the measurement of the cosmic growth rate via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Lixin Xu

In the context of f(R,T) theories of gravity, we study the evolution of scalar cosmological perturbations in the metric formalism. According to restrictions on the background evolution, a specific model within these theories is assumed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-20 F. G. Alvarenga , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , M. J. S. Houndjo , M. E. Rodrigues , D. Sáez-Gómez

In alternative theories of gravity, designed to produce cosmic acceleration at the current epoch, the growth of large scale structure can be modified. We study the potential of upcoming and future tomographic surveys such as DES and LSST,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 Gong-Bo Zhao , Levon Pogosian , Alessandra Silvestri , Joel Zylberberg

We compile a list of $14$ independent measurements of large-scale structure growth rate between redshifts $0.067 \leq z \leq 0.8$ and use this to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-evolving general-relativistic dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anatoly Pavlov , Omer Farooq , Bharat Ratra

We have probed a cosmological model in $f(R)$-gravity, which is a cubic equation in scalar curvature $R$. The terms arise due to nonlinear $f(R)$ function are treated as energy due to curvature inspired geometry. As a result, we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 G. K. Goswami , Rita Rani , Harshna Balhara , J. K. Singh

We place tight constraints on the growth index $\gamma$ by using the recent growth history results of 2dFGRS, SDSS-LRG, VIMOS-VLT deep Survey (VVDS) and {\em WiggleZ} datasets. In particular, we investigate several parametrizations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Spyros Basilakos , Athina Pouri

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

A Bayesian statistical analysis using redshift space distortions data is performed to test a model of Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity where gravity is non-metrical. The cosmological background mimics a $\Lambda$CDM evolution but differences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 Bruno J. Barros , Tiago Barreiro , Tomi Koivisto , Nelson J. Nunes

Considering a well-motivated $f(R)$ modified-gravity model, in which an exponential function of the curvature is included, in this paper we implement a statistical data analysis to set constraints on the parameters of the model, taking into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Mario A. Acero , A. Oliveros

In this manuscript, we present a number of fascinating explicit reconstructions for the $f(Q)$ gravity from the background of Friedmann-La\^imatre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) evolution history. We find the more general functions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-25 Gaurav N. Gadbail , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

We propose a new framework for studying the cosmology of $f(R)$ gravity which completely avoids using the reconstruction programme. This allows us to easily obtain a qualitative feel of how much the $\Lambda$CDM model differs from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Saikat Chakraborty , Kelly MacDevette , Peter Dunsby

We use measurements of the growth of cosmic structure, as inferred from the observed evolution of the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of galaxy clusters, to constrain departures from General Relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. We employ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 David Rapetti , Steven W. Allen , Adam Mantz , Harald Ebeling

In this work, we have considered a minimally modified gravity theory that effectively reproduces VCDM-like behavior to investigate its cosmological implications. The model parameters are constrained using a combination of CC, RSD, DESI BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Sai Swagat Mishra , Soumya Kanta Bhoi , P. K. Sahoo

Over the past decades, General Relativity and the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model have been successfully tested using several different astrophysical and cosmological probes based on large datasets ({\it precision cosmology}). Despite their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-07 Ivan de Martino , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Salvatore Capozziello