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The observer's frame is the more elementary description of the gravitational field than the metric. The most general covariant, even-parity quadratic form for the frame field in arbitrary dimension generalises the New General Relativity by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-30 Tomi Koivisto , Georgios Tsimperis

In this work, we develop a Lagrangian reduction theory for covariant field theories with gauge symmetries. These symmetries are modeled by a Lie group fiber bundle acting fiberwisely on a configuration bundle. In order to reduce the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Marco Castrillón López , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella

The linear approximation of scalar-tensor theories of gravity is obtained in the physical (Jordan) frame under the 4+0 (covariant) and 3+1 formalisms. Then the weak-field limit is analyzed and the conditions leading to significant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Salgado

Let a differential 4D-manifold with a smooth coframe field be given. Consider the operators on it that are linear in the second order derivatives or quadratic in the first order derivatives of the coframe, both with coefficients that depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Yakov Itin , Shmuel Kaniel

The teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) is represented in a field-theoretical form, where tetrad and matter perturbations are propagated on a background solution of TEGR. Thus, the background tetrad and metric satisfy the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 E. D. Emtsova , A. N. Petrov

A review of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity is presented. It is emphasized that general relativity may be formulated in terms of the tetrad fields and of the torsion tensor, and that this geometrical formulation leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-19 J. W. Maluf

We study the primary constraint structure of Newer General Relativity, a gravity theory based on a torsionless teleparallel geometry. The gravitational action is built from a scalar formed by quadratic combinations of the nonmetricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Carmen Ferrara , Alexey Golovnev , María José Guzmán

Symmetric teleparallel gravity and its $f(Q)$ extensions have emerged as promising alternatives to General Relativity (GR), yet the role of explicit geometry-matter couplings remains largely unexplored. In this work, we address this gap by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Ayush Hazarika , Simran Arora , P. K. Sahoo , Tiberiu Harko

We review on the models of gravity with a constraint by the Lagrange multiplier field. The constraint breaks general covariance or Lorentz symmetry in the ultraviolet region. We report on the $F(R)$ gravity model with the constraint and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Shin'ichi Nojiri

Within the general framework of spatially covariant theories of gravity, we study the conditions for having only the two tensorial degrees of freedom. Generally, there are three degrees of freedom propagating in the theory, of which two are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Xian Gao , Zhi-Bang Yao

Local Lorentz transformations play an important role in teleparallel gravity theories, in which a tetrad is conventionally employed as a fundamental field variable describing the gravitational field. It is commonly understood that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Manuel Hohmann

We address the problem of the existence of a Lagrangian for a given system of linear PDEs with constant coefficients. As a subtask, this involves bringing the system into a pre-Lagrangian form, wherein the number of equations matches the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Alexey Sharapov , David Shcherbatov

Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity is an exceptional theory of gravity that is consistent with the vanishing affine connection. This theory is an alternative and a simpler geometrical formulation of general relativity, where the non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Sanjay Mandal , N. Myrzakulov , P. K. Sahoo , R. Myrzakulov

In this model, the gravity term in the Lagrangean comes from spontaneous symmetry breaking of an additional scalar quadruplet field $\Upsilon$. The resulting gravitational field is approximate to one of the models of coframe gravity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-19 Mihai Moise

We present Hamilton's equations for the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), which is a reformulation of general relativity based on a curvatureless, metric compatible, and torsionful connection. For this, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Laxmipriya Pati , Daniel Blixt , Maria-Jose Guzman

We study the gravity in the context of a braneworld teleparallel scenario. The geometrical setup is assumed to be Randall-Sundrum II model where a single positive tension brane is embedded in an infinite AdS bulk. We derive the equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Kourosh Nozari , A. Behboodi , S. Akhshabi

In this work we explore the dynamics of the generalized hybrid metric-Palatini theory of gravity in the weak-field, slow-motion regime. We start by introducing the equivalent scalar-tensor representation of the theory, which contains two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 João Luís Rosa , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Gonzalo J. Olmo

The Covariant Canonical Gauge theory of Gravity is generalized by including at the Lagrangian level all possible quadratic curvature invariants. In this approach, the covariant Hamiltonian principle and the canonical transformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman , David Vasak , Jurgen Struckmeier , Horst Stoecker

In teleparallel geometries, symmetries are represented by affine frame symmetries which constrain both the (co)frame basis and the spin-connection (which are the primary geometric objects). In this paper we shall study teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Alan Coley , Robert van den Hoogen

In Symmetric Teleparallel General Relativity, gravity is attributed to the non-metricity. The so-called "coincident gauge" is usually taken in this theory so that the affine connection vanishes and the metric is the only fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Dehao Zhao