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We propose a revised formulation of General Relativity for cosmological settings, in which the Einstein constant varies with the energy density of the Universe. We demonstrate that this modification has only phenomenological impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Giovanni Montani , Giulia Maniccia , Elisa Fazzari , Alessandro Melchiorri

It has been suggested that Einstein's theory of General Relativity can be modified to accomodate mismatches between the gravitational field and luminous matter on a wide range of scales. Covariant theories of modified gravity generically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-31 P. G Ferreira , C. Skordis , C. Zunckel

We present a new model based on General Relativity in where a subtle change of curvature at late times is able to produce the observed Universe acceleration and an oscillating behavior in the effective equation of state. This model aims to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 A. Esteban-Gutiérrez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , A. Hernández-Almada , Juan Magaña , V. Motta

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

This study probes spacetime solutions within Einstein-Bumblebee gravity, a modified gravitational framework incorporating spontaneous Lorentz symmetry violation through a vector field mechanism. By introducing a cosmological constant into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Reggie C. Pantig , Shubham Kala , Ali Övgün , Nikko John Leo S. Lobos

Metric theories of gravity are studied, beginning with a general action that is quadratic in curvature and allows infinite inverse powers of the d'Alembertian operator, resulting in infrared non-local extensions of general relativity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Aindriu Conroy , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar , Ali Teimouri

The MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is presented here, as well as a theory that can be linked to it: the theory of the Aether, a four-vector field breaking Lorentz invariance. The form of its Lagrangian is studied, then basic equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-23 Anaelle Halle

We present a class of modified-gravity theories which we call ultra-local models. We add a scalar field, with negligible kinetic terms, to the Einstein-Hilbert action. We also introduce a conformal coupling to matter. This gives rise to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philippe Brax , Luca Alberto Rizzo , Patrick Valageas

Despite the success of dark-matter models, unresolved issues require exploring alternatives such as modified gravity theories. In this context, we examine the compatibility of the Hyperconical Modified Gravity (HMG) with galaxy rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Robert Monjo

In this work, we consider generalized uncertainty principles (GUPs) that incorporate a minimal length through generic momentum-dependent deformation functions. We thus develop a systematic approach connecting such a framework to effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Rocco D'Agostino , Pasquale Bosso , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

We reconcile seemingly conflicting statements in the literature about the behavior of cosmological solutions in modified theories of gravity where the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian for gravity is modified by the addition of a function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacy Sawicki , Wayne Hu

We propose a new cosmological framework in which the strength of the gravitational force acted on dark matter at late time can be weaker than that on the standard matter fields without introducing extra gravitational degrees of freedom. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate the cosmological implications of modified gravities induced by the quantum fluctuations of the gravitational metric. If the metric can be decomposed as the sum of the classical and of a fluctuating part, of quantum origin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 Xing Liu , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang

In this article we construct a relativistic extended metric theory of gravity, for which its weak field limit reduces to the non-relativistic MOdified Newtonian Dynamics regime of gravity. The theory is fully covariant and the way to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-01 E. Barrientos , S. Mendoza

This work systematically investigates the post-Newtonian behavior of general quadratic gravity in the weak-field regime. By extending the Einstein-Hilbert action to include quadratic curvature terms as $\mathcal{L}\propto R-\lambda C^2+\mu…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Jie Zhu , Hao Li

Here, we derive the metric for the spacetime around rotating object for the gravity action having nonlocal correction of $R\Box^{-2} R $ to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Starting with the generic stationary, axisymmetric metric, we solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-02 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

The equation of motion for test particles in $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity is derived. By considering an explicit coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature, $R$, and the Lagrangian density of matter, it is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Orfeu Bertolami , Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We show that general infrared modifications of the Einstein-Hilbert action obtained by addition of curvature invariants are not viable. These modifications contain either ghosts or light gravity scalars. A very specific fine-tuning might…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvaro Nunez , Slava Solganik

We compare N-body simulations of isolated galaxies performed in both frameworks of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity with dark matter (DM). We have developed a multigrid code able to efficiently solve the modified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Tiret , F. Combes

The missing gravity in galaxies requires dark matter, or alternatively a modification of gravity or inertia. These theoretical possibilities of fundamental importance may be distinguished by the statistical relation between the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Kyu-Hyun Chae