Modified gravity theories on a nutshell: Inflation, bounce and late-time evolution

S Nojiri, SD Odintsov, VK Oikonomou - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of
modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time …

Testing general relativity in cosmology

M Ishak - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2019 - Springer
We review recent developments and results in testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological
scales. The subject has witnessed rapid growth during the last two decades with the aim of …

[HTML][HTML] Modified gravity and cosmology

T Clifton, PG Ferreira, A Padilla, C Skordis - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified
theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover …

Unified cosmic history in modified gravity: from F (R) theory to Lorentz non-invariant models

S Nojiri, SD Odintsov - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
The classical generalization of general relativity is considered as the gravitational alternative
for a unified description of the early-time inflation with late-time cosmic acceleration. The …

[HTML][HTML] f (R) theories

A De Felice, S Tsujikawa - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2010 - Springer
Over the past decade, f (R) theories have been extensively studied as one of the simplest
modifications to General Relativity. In this article we review various applications of f (R) …

Dynamics of dark energy

EJ Copeland, M Sami, S Tsujikawa - International Journal of Modern …, 2006 - World Scientific
We review in detail a number of approaches that have been adopted to try and explain the
remarkable observation of our accelerating universe. In particular we discuss the arguments …

Introduction to modified gravity and gravitational alternative for dark energy

SI Nojiri, SD Odintsov - … Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern …, 2007 - World Scientific
We review various modified gravities considered as gravitational alternative for dark energy.
Specifically, we consider the versions of f (R), f (G) or f (R, G) gravity, model with non-linear …

Models of cosmic acceleration that evade solar system tests

W Hu, I Sawicki - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2007 - APS
We study a class of metric-variation f (R) models that accelerates the expansion without a
cosmological constant and satisfies both cosmological and solar-system tests in the small …

Energy conditions in gravity

M Sharif, A Ikram - The European Physical Journal C, 2016 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new modified gravity theory named f (G, T) f (G, T)
gravity (GG and T are the Gauss–Bonnet invariant and trace of the energy-momentum …

Inflation dynamics and reheating

BA Bassett, S Tsujikawa, D Wands - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
The theory of inflation with single and multiple fields is reviewed paying particular attention
to the dynamics of adiabatic and entropy/isocurvature perturbations which provide the …