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We show how to take the first step in the conformal program for constructing general matter couplings to Carroll gravity. In particular, we couple a single massless electric/magnetic scalar to conformal Carroll gravity with isotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Patrick Concha , Octavio Fierro , Evelyn Rodríguez , Jan Rosseel

In this work we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the Einstein equations with a minimally coupled scalar field. The primary focus of the present paper here establishing under what conditions a solution becomes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Joshua Ritchie

We consider a novel model of gravity with a scalar field described by the Lagrangian with higher order derivative terms in a cosmological context. The model has the same solution for the homogeneous and isotropic universe as in the model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-04 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We study canonical transformations of general relativity (GR) to provide a novel matter coupling to gravity. Although the transformed theory is equivalent to GR in vacuum, the equivalence no longer holds if a matter field minimally couples…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Katsuki Aoki , Chunshan Lin , Shinji Mukohyama

In this work a study of the gravity is made using Einstein's equation in the post-Newtonian approach. This is a method to linearise the General Relativity indicated to treat non-relativistic objects. It enables us to construct, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 I. C. Jardim , R. R. Landim

We study canonical formulation of Born-Infeld inspired gravity coupled non-minimally to scalar field. Then we propose form of Eddington Gravity coupled to collection of scalar fields whose canonical form is the same as Hamiltonian for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 J. Kluson

We study models where a scalar field has derivative and non-derivative couplings to the Ricci tensor and the co-Ricci tensor with a view to inflation. We consider both the metric formulation and the Palatini formulation. In the Palatini…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Hamed Bouzari Nezhad , Syksy Rasanen

In this work, a cosmological model is considered having two scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity with a mixed kinetic term. The model is characterized by the coupling function and the potential function which are assumed to depend on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Santu Mondal , Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

A homogeneous part of the Seiberg-Witten gauge equivalence relation for gauge fields can lead to solutions that involve matter fields in such a way that the gauge equivalence and the dimensional and index structures are preserved. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 B. Muthukumar

We determine exact and analytic solutions of the gravitational field equations in Einstein-aether scalar model field with a Bianchi I background space. In particular, we consider nonlinear interactions of the scalar field with the aether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Genly Leon

In the standard Einstein-Cartan theory(EC), matter fields couple to gravitation field through the Minimal Coupling Procedure(MCP), yet leaving the theory an ambiguity: applying MCP to the action or to the equation of motion would lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-09 Zi-Wei Chen , Run Diao , Xiang-Song Chen

The nonminimal coupling of the kinetic term to Einstein's tensor helps the implementation of inflationary models due to the gravitationally enhanced friction. We calculate the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

We consider a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity and review briefly different forms it can be presented (different conformal frames and scalar field parametrizations). We investigate the conditions under which its field equations and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-02 Laur Jarv , Piret Kuusk , Margus Saal , Ott Vilson

Gravity is derived from an entropic action coupling matter fields with geometry. The fundamental idea is to relate the metric of Lorentzian spacetime to a quantum operator, playing the role of an renormalizable effective density matrix and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Ginestra Bianconi

The presence of scalar fields with non-minimal gravitational interactions of the form $\xi |\phi|^2 R$ may have important implications for the physics of the early universe. While many studies solve the dynamics of non-minimally coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Daniel G. Figueroa , Adrien Florio , Toby Opferkuch , Ben A. Stefanek

A new gauge theory of gravity is presented. The theory is constructed in a flat background spacetime and employs gauge fields to ensure that all relations between physical quantities are independent of the positions and orientations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Lasenby , Chris Doran , Stephen Gull

Recently, Horava and Melby-Thompson proposed in arXiv:1007.2410 a nonrelativistic gravity theory with extended gauge symmetry that is free of the spin-0 graviton. We propose a minimal substitution recipe to implement this extended gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Alan M. da Silva

Integrable models of 1+1 dimensional gravity coupled to scalar and vector fields are briefly reviewed. A new class of integrable models with nonminimal coupling to scalar fields is constructed and discussed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 A. T. Filippov , V. G. Ivanov

Aims. We investigated the gravitational effects of a scalar field within scalar-tensor gravity as an alternative to dark matter. Motivated by chameleon, symmetron and f(R)-gravity models, we studied a phenomenological scenario where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 David F. Mota , Vincenzo Salzano , Salvatore Capozziello , Nicola R. Napolitano

In order to give the standard scenario of the astrophysics, we study the Einstein theory with minimally coupled scalar field and the cosmological term by considering the scalar field as a candidate of the dark matter. We obtained the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Kenmoku , M. Ohto , K. Shigemoto , K. Uehara