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The discovery that the cosmic expansion is accelerating has been followed by an intense theoretical and experimental response in physics and astronomy. The discovery implies that our most basic notions about how gravity work are violated on…

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We provide a new extension of general relativity (GR) which has the remarkable property of being more constrained than GR plus a cosmological constant, having one less free parameter. This is implemented by allowing the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Stephon Alexander , Marina Cortês , Andrew R. Liddle , João Magueijo , Robert Sims , Lee Smolin

In this paper, the dynamical behavior of the accelerated expansion of the universe is discussed within the framework of $f(T)$ gravity, considering power law functional form of $ f(T)=\alpha (-T)^{n}$. Two distinct redshift-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Shivank Pal , Romanshu Garg , Gyan Prakash Singh , Gauree Shanker

A cosmological model is formulated in the context of a scalar-tensor theory of gravity in which the entire cosmic background evolution is due to a complex scalar field evolving in Minkowski spacetime, such that its (dimensional) modulus is…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Meir Shimon

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

We consider a higher dimensional gravity theory with a negative kinetic energy scalar field and a cosmological constant. We find that the theory admits an exact cosmological solution for the scale factor of our universe. It has the feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Hong , J. Lee , T. H. Lee , P. OH

We investigate a fourth order model of gravity, having a free length parameter, and no cosmological constant or dark energy. We consider cosmological evolution of a flat Friedmann universe in this model for the case that the length…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Shreya Banerjee , Nilesh Jayswal , Tejinder P. Singh

In this work we study a general vector-tensor model of dark energy with a Gauss-Bonnet term coupled to a vector field and without explicit potential terms. Considering a spatially flat FRW type universe and a vector field without spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-05 A. Oliveros , Enzo L. Solis , Mario A. Acero

We study evolution of a flat Friedmann-Robertson Walker universe filled with a bulk viscous cosmological fluid in a higher derivative theory of gravity in the presence of time varying gravitational and cosmological constant. Cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 B. C. Paul , P. S. Debnath

We investigate the evolution of a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe in the framework of scalar non-metricity theory of gravity. In the model, we consider dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) described by the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Bikash Chandra Roy , Bikash Chandra Paul

The present acceleration of the Universe strongly indicated by recent observational data can be modeled in the scope of a scalar-tensor theory of gravity. We show that it is possible to determine the structure of this theory (the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Boisseau , G. Esposito-Farese , D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

A modification to the Friedmann Robertson Walker equation is proposed in which the universe is flat, matter dominated, and accelerating. An additional term, which contains only matter or radiation (no vacuum contribution), becomes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Katherine Freese , Matthew Lewis

In the present paper, we are considering a spatially-flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model, fueled with stiff matter and dust, treated as non-interacting ideal fluid sources. By solving the corresponding Friedmann equation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-27 Marina-Aura Dariescu , Denisa Andreea Mihu , Ciprian Dariescu

In this article, we study the expanding nature of universe in the contest of $f(R,L_m)$ gravity theory, here $ R $ represents the Ricci scalar and $ L_m $ is the matter Lagrangian density. With a specific form of $ f(R,L_m) $, we obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 J. K. Singh , Shaily , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Harshna Balhara

In this study, we have explored a transitioning cosmological model of universe's expansion in $f(R,\mathcal{L}_{m})$ gravity. The quadratic type of equation of state parameter in the form $\omega=-1 + \alpha (1 + z) + \beta (1 + z)^2$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj , Saibal Ray

We consider tensor-vector theories with varying the space-time-matter coupling constant (varying Einstein velocity) in a spatially flat FRW universe. We examine the dynamics of this model by dynamical system method assuming a \Lambda CDM…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Azam Izadi , Ali Shojai , Mojtaba Nouradini

We study a $(4+D)$-dimensional Kaluza-Klein cosmology with a Robertson-Walker type metric having two scale factors $a$ and $R$, corresponding to $D$-dimensional internal space and 4-dimensional universe, respectively. By introducing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Darabi

In the framework of teleparallel gravity, the Friedman-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with scalar tensor theory where scalar field is non-minimally coupled to both the torsion scalar and boundary term is studied. Utilizing the Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Ganim Gecim , Yusuf Kucukakca

We consider f(R,T) modified theory of gravity in which, in general, the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. We indicate that in this type of the theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-05 Raziyeh Zaregonbadi , Mehrdad Farhoudi

A cubic correction of $f(T)$ gravity, where $T$ is the teleparallel scalar torsion, is considered to describe gravity in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model. A scale factor permitting departure from inflation era has been…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 G. G. L. Nashed , W. El Hanafy