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The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

We generalize previous work by considering a novel gravitational model with an action given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar, the matter Lagrangian density, a scalar field and a kinetic term constructed from the gradients of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-06 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Olivier Minazzoli

In this paper, we discuss the gravitational waves in the context of gauge theory gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The gauge theory gravity is a gravity theory under gauge formulation in the language of geometric algebra. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Jianfei Xu

The focus of this article is on a modification of General Relativity (GR) governed by a dynamical scalar field. The latter is able to acquire a nonzero spacetime-dependent vacuum expectation value, which gives rise to a spontaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-31 João Victor V. Santos , Marco Schreck

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

In general relativity (GR), spacetime geometry is no longer just a background arena but a physical and dynamical entity with its own degrees of freedom. We present an overview of approaches to quantum gravity in which this central feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Abhay Ashtekar , Martin Reuter , Carlo Rovelli

This paper introduces several ideas of emergent gravity, which come from a system similar to an ensemble of quantum spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ particles. To derive a physically relevant theory, the model is constructed by quantizing a scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Quentin Ansel

Using a scalar field as an intrinsic 'clock' while investigating the dynamics of gravitational systems has been successfully pursued in various researches on the border between classical and quantum gravity. The objective of our research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-25 Anna Nakonieczna , Jerzy Lewandowski

Based on a family of indefinite unitary representations of the diffeomorphism group of an oriented smooth $4$-manifold, a manifestly covariant $4$ dimensional and non-perturbative algebraic quantum field theory formulation of gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-18 Gabor Etesi

We present the first numerically stable nonlinear evolution for the leading-order gravitational effective field theory (Quadratic Gravity) in the spherically-symmetric sector. The formulation relies on (i) harmonic gauge to cast the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Aaron Held , Hyun Lim

Flatly Foliated Relativity (FFR) is a new theory which conceptually lies between Special Relativity (SR) and General Relativity (GR), in which spacetime is foliated by flat Euclidean spaces. While GR is based on the idea that "matter curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Hubert Bray , Benjamin Hamm , Sven Hirsch , James Wheeler , Yiyue Zhang

In the first part of this contribution, we review the development of the theory of scale relativity and its geometric framework constructed in terms of a fractal and nondifferentiable continuous space-time. This theory leads (i) to a…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Laurent Nottale

In the general relativity theory the basic ingredient to describe gravity is the geometry, which interacts with all forms of matter and energy, and as such, the metric could be interpreted as a true physical quantity. However the metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Mario Novello , Júnior D. Toniato

Four-dimensional (4D) simplicial quantum gravity coupled to both scalar fields (N_X) and gauge fields (N_A) has been studied using Monte-Carlo simulations. The matter dependence of the string susceptibility exponent gamma^{(4)} is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Egawa , S. Horata , T. Yukawa

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity are known to allow significant deviations from general relativity through various astrophysical phenomena. In this paper, we formulate a scalar-connection gravity by setting up scalars and connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-21 Hemza Azri , Salah Nasri

Einstein's General Relativity (GR) is a dynamical theory of the spacetime metric. We describe an approach in which GR becomes an SU(2) gauge theory. We start at the linearised level and show how a gauge theoretic Lagrangian for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Kirill Krasnov

Scalar-tensor gravitational theories are important extensions of standard general relativity, which can explain both the initial inflationary evolution, as well as the late accelerating expansion of the Universe. In the present paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 J. A. Belinchón , T. Harko , M. K. Mak

The aim of this paper (Part III) is formulating GR as a scalar field theory. The basic structural elements of it are a generating function, a generalized density and a generalized temperature. One of the axioms of this theory is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Schröter

Treating the gravitational force on the same footing as the electroweak and strong forces, we present a quantum field theory of gravity based on spin and scaling gauge symmetries. A biframe spacetime is initiated to describe such a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Yue-Liang Wu

We consider a preferred-frame bimetric theory in which the scalar gravitational field both influences the metric and has direct dynamical effects. A modified version ("v2") is built, by assuming now a locally-isotropic dilation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Mayeul Arminjon