Modified gravity and cosmology

EN Saridakis, R Lazkoz, V Salzano, PV Moniz… - 2021 - Springer
The dawn of the twenty-first century came with very positive prospects for gravity, cosmology,
and astrophysics. Technological progress made it possible for cosmology to enter to its …

Multifractional theories: an updated review

G Calcagni - Modern Physics Letters A, 2021 - World Scientific
The status of multifractional theories is reviewed using comparative tables. Theoretical
foundations, classical matter and gravity dynamics, cosmology and experimental constraints …

Nonlocal gravity. Conceptual aspects and cosmological predictions

E Belgacem, Y Dirian, S Foffa… - Journal of cosmology …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Even if the fundamental action of gravity is local, the corresponding quantum effective action,
that includes the effect of quantum fluctuations, is a nonlocal object. These nonlocalities are …

A generalization to the Rastall theory and cosmic eras

H Moradpour, Y Heydarzade, F Darabi… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
A generalized version for the Rastall theory is proposed showing the agreement with the
cosmic accelerating expansion. In this regard, a coupling between geometry and the …

Classical and quantum gravity with fractional operators

G Calcagni - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Following the same steps made for a scalar field in a parallel publication, we propose a
class of perturbative theories of quantum gravity based on fractional operators, where the …

Gravity in the infrared and effective nonlocal models

E Belgacem, Y Dirian, A Finke, S Foffa… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a systematic and updated discussion of a research line carried out by our group
over the last few years, in which gravity is modified at cosmological distances by the …

Testing nonlocal gravity with lunar laser ranging

E Belgacem, A Finke, A Frassino… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the impact of the limit on| Ġ|/G from Lunar Laser Ranging on" nonlocal gravity", ie
on models of the quantum effective action of gravity that include nonlocal terms relevant in …

Non-local gravity and comparison with observational datasets. II. Updated results and Bayesian model comparison with ΛCDM

Y Dirian, S Foffa, M Kunz, M Maggiore… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive and updated comparison with cosmological observations of
two non-local modifications of gravity previously introduced by our group, the so called RR …

Nonlocal infrared modifications of gravity. A review

M Maggiore - Gravity and the Quantum: Pedagogical Essays on …, 2017 - Springer
We review an approach developed in the last few years by our group in which GR is
modified in the infrared, at an effective level, by nonlocal terms associated to a mass scale …

Towards reconstructing the quantum effective action of gravity

B Knorr, F Saueressig - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Starting from a parametrization of the quantum effective action for gravity, we calculate
correlation functions for observable quantities. The resulting templates allow us to reverse …