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Dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity has been attracting plenty of attentions due to the fact that it is a parity-violating modified theory of gravity that corresponds to a well-posed effective field theory in weak coupling approximation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Xi-Jing Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

Among the so-called classical tests of general relativity (GR), light bending has been confirmed with an accuracy that increases as times goes by. Here we study the gravitational deflection of photons within the framework of classical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Antonio Accioly , José Helayël-Neto , Breno Giacchini , Wallace Herdy

Gravitational lensing is investigated in the weak field limit of fourth order gravity in which the Lagrangian of the gravitational field is modified by replacing the Ricci scalar curvature R with an analytical expression $f(R)$. Considering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , A. Troisi

One of the fundamental open questions in cosmology is whether we can regard the universe evolution without singularity like a Big Bang or a Big Rip. This challenging subject stimulates one to regard a nonsingular universe in the far past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-09 Seyed Hossein Hendi , Mehrab Momennia , Behzad Eslam Panah , Shahram Panahiyan

We present updated constraints on modified gravity by including the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from CMB lensing-CMB temperature cross-correlations, based on the latest Planck PR4 maps. Utilizing the Effective Field Theory of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Anton Chudaykin , Martin Kunz , Julien Carron

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

With the Hubble Frontier Fields program, gravitational lensing has provided a powerful way to extend the study of the ultraviolet luminosity function (LF) of galaxies at $z \sim 6$ down to unprecedented magnitude limits. At the same time,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Hakim Atek , Johan Richard , Jean-Paul Kneib , Daniel Schaerer

Conformal transformation as a mathematical tool has been used in many areas of gravitational physics. In this paper, we would consider the gravity's rainbow, in which the metric could be treated as a conformal rescaling of the original…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-21 Miao He , Ping Li , Zi-Liang Wang , Jia-Cheng Ding , Jian-Bo Deng

In this article we confront a class of $f(Q)$ gravity models with observational data of galaxy-galaxy lensing. Specifically, we consider the $f(Q)$ gravity models containing a small quadratic correction when compared with General Relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Qingqing Wang , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Wentao Luo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this work, we investigate the thermodynamics of black $p$-branes (BB) in the context of Gravity's Rainbow. We investigate this using rainbow functions that have been motivated from loop quantum gravity and $\kappa$-Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Amani Ashour , Mir Faizal , Ahmed Farag Ali , Fayçal Hammad

In this paper, the weak gravitational lensing phenomenon for a recently proposed rotating regular black hole with an asymptotically Minkowski core characterized by a sub-Planckian curvature was investigated. Using the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Miles Angelo P. Sodejana

The potential conflict between the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) poses a significant challenge in general relativity. The WCCC serves as a fundamental assumption ensuring the coherence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , İzzet Sakallı

We investigate the semiclassical approach to the lensing of photons in a spherically symmetric gravitational background, starting from Born level and include in our analysis the radiative corrections obtained from the electroweak theory for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Matteo Maria Maglio , Mirko Serino

Among the higher curvature gravities, the most extensively studied theory is the so-called Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, whose Lagrangian contains Einstein term with the GB combination of quadratic curvature terms, and the GB term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Rahul Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

Using a new geometrical approach introduced by Gibbons and Werner we study the deflection angle by Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in the background spacetimes with a global monopole and a cosmic string. By calculating the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Kimet Jusufi

In this study, we investigate gravitational lensing within modified gravity frameworks, focusing on the Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ and normal branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) models, and we compare these results with those obtained from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Tizfahm , Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Antonino Del Popolo

This study investigates the nonlinear charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole solution within the framework of massive gravity, motivated by recent advancements linking the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to phenomena such as Weak Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , Jafar Sadeghi

Positivity bounds coming from consistency of UV scattering amplitudes are in general insufficient to prove the weak gravity conjecture for theories beyond Einstein-Maxwell. Additional ingredients about the UV may be necessary to exclude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-20 Gregory J. Loges , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

We investigate the gravitational baryogenesis scenario within the context of $F(R)$ gravity's rainbow which incorporates both modified gravity and energy-dependent spacetime. This study explores a mechanism for generating baryon asymmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Parviz Goodarzi