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We present a class of generally covariant nonlocal gravity models which have a flat-space general relativistic (GR) limit and also possess a stable de Sitter (dS) or Anti-de Sitter (AdS) background with an arbitrary value of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Andrei O. Barvinsky

The classical double copy relations establish correspondence between exact gravity solutions and their counterparts in biadjoint and gauge theories. In this work, we investigate a peculiar case of double copy relations arising in exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Emanuelis Lazauskas

$f(R)$ gravity is one of the simplest theories of modified gravity to explain the accelerated cosmic expansion. Although it is usually assumed that the quasi-Newtonian approach (a combination of the quasi-static approximation and sub-Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Mu-Chen Chiu , Andy Taylor , Chenggang Shu , Hong Tu

We provide a novel model of gravity by using adjoint frame fields in four dimensions. It has a natural interpretation as a gravitational theory of a complex metric field, which describes interactions between two real metrics. The classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Zhi-Qiang Guo , Ivan Schmidt

Quadratic gravity is a well-motivated extension of general relativity~(GR) wherein the Einstein-Hilbert action is augmented by quadratic curvature terms. This theory is equivalent to GR in an effective-field-theory framework, while the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

The quantum gravity is formulated based on principle of local gauge invariance. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge field. In leading order approximation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Wu

We outline, test, and apply a new scheme for nonpertubative analyses of quantized field systems in contact with dynamical gravity. While gravity is treated classically in the present paper, the approach lends itself for a generalization to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Maximilian Becker , Martin Reuter

We develop a new perspective on the discretization of the phase space structure of gravity in 2+1 dimensions as a piecewise-flat geometry in 2 spatial dimensions. Starting from a subdivision of the continuum geometric and phase space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-03 Laurent Freidel , Florian Girelli , Barak Shoshany

We review the status of electric/magnetic duality for free gauge field theories in four space-time dimensions with emphasis on Maxwell theory and linearized Einstein gravity. Using the theory of vector and tensor spherical harmonics, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-15 Ioannis Bakas

We explore in detail the role in euclidean 3d quantum gravity of quantum Born reciprocity or `semidualisation'. The latter is an algebraic operation defined using quantum group methods that interchanges position and momentum. Using this we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-18 S Majid , B J Schroers

For the the quintic quasitopological action which has no well-defined variational principle, we introduced a surface term that for a spacetime with flat boundaries make the action well-defined. Moreover, we investigated the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-23 A. Bazrafshan , A. R. Olamaei

Double Field Theory (DFT) has emerged as a comprehensive framework for gravity, presenting a testable and robust alternative to General Relativity (GR), rooted in the $\mathbf{O}(D,D)$ symmetry principle of string theory. These lecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Jeong-Hyuck Park

A new approach to quantum gravity is presented based on a nonlinear quantization scheme for canonical field theories with an implicitly defined Hamiltonian. The constant mean curvature foliation is employed to eliminate the momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles H-T Wang

Non-Abelian Gauss law is interpreted in terms of area bits described in a local frame which fit together into closed surfaces and the Non-Abelian Stokes law in terms of length bits described in a local frame which fit together into closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Sharatchandra , H. Gopalkrishna Gadiyar

We prove that the Einstein equations can be solved in a very general form for arbitrary spacetime dimensions and various types of vacuum and non-vacuum cases following a geometric method of anholonomic frame deformations for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Although quasi-dilaton massive gravity is a well-defined gravitational theory, it exhibits instabilities and suffers from the strong coupling problem. In this work we construct an extension of the theory, through the inclusion of the aether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-07 Sobhan Kazempour , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Emmanuel N Saridakis

The covariant phase space formalism in general relativity is a covariant method for constructing the symplectic two-form, Hamiltonian and other conserved charges on the phase space of solutions to the Einstein equation with classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Abhirup Bhattacharya , Onkar Parrikar

The double copy relates gauge and gravitational theories, with widespread application to quantum scattering amplitudes and classical perturbative results. It also connects exact classical solutions of Abelian gauge and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Brian Kent , Aaron Zimmerman

Emergent modified gravity presents a new set of generally covariant gravitational theories in which the space-time metric is not directly given by one of the fundamental fields. A metric compatible with the modified dynamics of gravity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Martin Bojowald , Erick I. Duque

In this paper, we present the static charged solutions of quartic quasitopological gravity in the presence of a nonlinear electromagnetic field. Two branches of these solutions present black holes with one or two horizons or a naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-31 Mohammad Ghanaatian , Afsaneh Bazrafshan