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We study Proca theory with non-minimal coupling to gravity through the Ricci tensor and Ricci scalar interactions. We show that in the homogeneous and isotropic Universe together with cosmological constant, the temporal component of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Antonio De Felice , Anamaria Hell

In this work the Bumblebee model for spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking is considered in the context of spherically symmetric astrophysical bodies. A discussion of the modified equations of motion is presented and constraints on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-23 Jorge Páramos , Gonçalo Guiomar

In this study, we found a new traversable wormhole solution in the framework of a bumblebee gravity model. With these types of models, the Lorentz symmetry violation arises from the dynamics of a bumblebee vector field that is non-minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Ali Övgün , Kimet Jusufi , İzzet Sakallı

This paper presents the first derivation of the quadratic action for curvature perturbations, $\zeta$, within the framework of cuscuton gravity. We study the scalar cosmological perturbations sourced by a canonical single scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Supranta S. Boruah , Hyung J. Kim , Ghazal Geshnizjani

We investigate some cosmological implications at background level of the Bumblebee model. The phase-space, the critical points and their stability are analyzed in detail applying well-established dynamical system techniques. What is more,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Grigorios Panotopoulos , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

We report the existence of novel static spherical black-hole solutions in a vector-tensor gravitational theory called the bumblebee gravity model which extends the Einstein-Maxwell theory by allowing the vector to nonminimally couple to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-20 Rui Xu , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

We perform detailed investigation of cosmological perturbations in f(T) theory of gravity coupled with scalar field. Our work emphasizes on the way to gauge fix the theory and we examine all possible modes of perturbations up to second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-24 Keisuke Izumi , Yen Chin Ong

In this paper, we explore the perturbative renormalization and study the classical dynamics of the bumblebee model coupled to quadratic gravity, a theoretical setting that allows the violation of Lorentz symmetry. Such a violation arises…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 R. B. Alfaia , Willian Carvalho , A. C. Lehum , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

In this work, we investigate the consequences of the spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry, triggered by the bumblebee vector field, on the usual Einstein-Hilbert theory. Specifically, we consider the Einstein-Hilbert action modified by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-11 R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida , R. Casana , M. M. Ferreira

We investigated the effects of the spacetime curvature and extra dimensions on the excitations of a self-interacting vector field known as the bumblebee field. The self-interacting quadratic potential breaks the gauge invariance and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-20 L. A. Lessa , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We provide a cosmological test of modified gravity with two tensorial degrees of freedom and no extra propagating scalar mode. The theory of gravity we consider admits a cosmological model that is indistinguishable from the $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Takashi Hiramatsu , Tsutomu Kobayashi

We present a fully covariant and gauge-invariant analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity. Working within the 1+3 formalism, we derive the exact propagation equations for scalar, vector, and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Peter K. S. Dunsby , Maria-Alexia Caldis , Eduardo Bittencourt

Considering quantum gravity within the framework of effective field theory, we investigated the consequences of spontaneous Lorentz violation for the gravitational potential. In particular, we focus our attention on the bumblebee models, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-03 R. V. Maluf , Victor Santos , W. T. Cruz , C. A. S. Almeida

Lorentz-Violating (LV) scenario gets involved through a bumblebee field vector field $B_\mu$. A spontaneous symmetry breaking allows the field to acquires a vacuum expectation value that generates LV into the system. A Kerr-Sen-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

In contrast to scalar and tensor modes, vector modes of linear perturbations around an expanding Friedmann--Robertson--Walker universe decay. This makes them largely irrelevant for late time cosmology, assuming that all modes started out at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Golam Mortuza Hossain

We consider a massive vector field with derivative interactions that propagates only the 3 desired polarizations (besides two tensor polarizations from gravity) with second-order equations of motion in curved space-time. The cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Antonio De Felice , Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Mukohyama , Shinji Tsujikawa , Ying-li Zhang

The beyond-generalized Proca theories are the extension of second-order massive vector-tensor theories (dubbed generalized Proca theories) with two transverse vector modes and one longitudinal scalar besides two tensor polarizations. Even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-11 Shintaro Nakamura , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

It is notoriously difficult to construct a stable non-singular bouncing cosmology that avoids all possible instabilities throughout the entire evolution of the universe. In this work, we explore whether a non-singular bounce driven by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Lara Bohnenblust , Serena Giardino , Lavinia Heisenberg , Nadine Nussbaumer

Bumblebee gravity is one of the simplest gravity theories with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Since we know a rotating black hole solution in bumblebee gravity, we can potentially test this model with the available astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Jiale Gu , Shafqat Riaz , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi

The fate of the Nambu-Goldstone modes arising from spontaneous Lorentz violation is investigated. Using the vierbein formalism, it is shown that up to 10 Lorentz and diffeomorphism Nambu-Goldstone modes can appear and that they are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky