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Cosmology in extended theories of gravity is considered assuming the Palatini variational principle, for which the metric and connection are independent variables. The field equations are derived to linear order in perturbations about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomi Koivisto , Hannu Kurki-Suonio

The purpose of this paper is to explore, in a space of four-dimensions, the possible forms that second-order, bi-scalar-vector-tensor field equations derivable from a variational principle can assume. In order to restrict this enormous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Gregory W. Horndeski

We present a new approach to find exact solutions for cosmological models. By requiring the existence of a symmetry transformation vector for the equations of motion of the given cosmological model (without using either Lagrangian or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Salvatore Capozziello , Mahmood Roshan

In this proceeding, we review modified theories of gravity with a curvature-matter coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature and the Lagrangian density of matter. This explicit nonminimal coupling induces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko

We study cosmological dynamics of the energy-momentum squared gravity. By adding the squared of the matter field's energy-momentum tensor ($\zeta\, \textbf{T}^{2}$) to the Einstein Hilbert action, we obtain the Einstein's field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-30 Marzieh Faraji , Narges Rashidi , Kourosh Nozari

One of the so-called viable modified gravities is analyzed. This kind of gravity theories are characterized by a well behavior at local scales, where General Relativity is recovered, while the modified terms become important at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Diego Sáez-Gómez

The authors of Ref. \cite{1-2}, investigated cosmic evolution in an external interacting model of scalar tensor gravity namely Brans Dicke chameleon scenario. The procedure of this work contains novelties but, it shall be observed from this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

The presence of spinor fields is considered in the framework of some extensions of teleparallel gravity, where the Weitzenb\"ock connection is assumed. Some well known models as the Chaplygin gas and its generalizations are reconstructed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Diego Saez-Gomez , Petr Tsyba

Considering the Friedmann--Lema\^{i}tre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) metric and the Einstein scalar field system as an underlying gravitational model to construct fractional cosmological models has interesting implications in both classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 S. M. M. Rasouli , S. Cheraghchi , P. V. Moniz

We discuss the averaging problem in general relativity, using the form of the macroscopic gravity equations in the case of spherical symmetry in volume preserving coordinates. In particular, we calculate the form of the correlation tensor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Coley , N. Pelavas

Birkhoff's theorem is discussed in the frame of f(R) gravity by using its scalar-tensor representation. Modified gravity has become very popular at recent times as it is able to reproduce the unification of inflation and late-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Salvatore Capozziello , Diego Sáez-Gómez

Energy conservation has the status of a fundamental physical principle. However, measurements in quantum mechanics do not comply with energy conservation. Therefore, it is expected that a more fundamental theory of gravity -- one that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Y. Bonder , J. E. Herrera , A. M. Rubiol

In this paper, we first obtain the energy density by the approach of the new agegraphic dark energy model, and then the $f(T,B)$ gravity model is studied as an alternative to the dark energy in a viscous fluid by flat-FRW background, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 A. Pourbagher , Alireza Amani

We study a group field theory (GFT) for quantum gravity coupled to four massless scalar fields, using these matter fields to define a (relational) coordinate system. We exploit symmetries of the GFT action, in particular under shifts in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-12 Steffen Gielen , Lisa Mickel

Recently, it was formulated a teleparallel theory called $f(T,B)$ gravity which connects both $f(T)$ and $f(R)$ under suitable limits. In this theory, the function in the action is assumed to depend on the torsion scalar $T$ and also on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-19 Sebastian Bahamonde , M. Zubair , G. Abbas

Motivated by the newly proposal for gravity as the effect of the torsion scalar $T$ and trace of the energy momentum tensor $\mathcal{T}$,we investigate the cosmological reconstruction of different models of the Universe. Our aim here is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

The paper studies the possible interplay between matter and geometry in scalar tensor theories of gravitation where the energy--momentum tensor is directly coupled with the Einstein tensor. After obtaining the scalar tensor representation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Mihai Marciu

A new set of field equations for a space-time dependent Newton's constant $G(x)$ and cosmological constant $\Lambda(x)$ in the presence of matter is presented. We prove that it represents the most general mathematically consistent,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alfio Bonanno , Georgios Kofinas , Vasilios Zarikas

In recent years, modifications to General Relativity (GR) have been explored to address cosmological observations, particularly in the context of late-time cosmic acceleration. Among these, modifications based on the Teleparallel Equivalent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Saurabh Verma , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M. S. Barak

We investigate the damping of gravitational waves (GW) in $f(R)$ gravity by matter. By applying the kinetic theory, we examine the first-order approximation of the relativistic Boltzmann equation. In the flat spacetime, we derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Haiyuan Feng , Laiyuan Su , Rong-Jia Yang , Wei-Qiang Chen