Implications of Palatini gravity for inflation and beyond

ID Gialamas, A Karam, TD Pappas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - World Scientific
In this paper, we present an introduction to cosmic inflation in the framework of Palatini
gravity, which provides an intriguing alternative to the conventional metric formulation of …

Palatini-Higgs inflation with nonminimal derivative coupling

ID Gialamas, A Karam, A Lykkas, TD Pappas - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The predictions of standard Higgs inflation in the framework of the metric formalism yield a
tensor-to-scalar ratio r∼ 10-3 which lies well within the expected accuracy of near-future …

The role of longitudinal polarizations in Horndeski and macroscopic gravity: introducing gravitational plasmas

F Moretti, F Bombacigno, G Montani - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
We discuss some general and relevant features of longitudinal gravitational modes in
Horndeski gravity and their interaction with matter media. Adopting a gauge-invariant …

Nonmetricity theories and aspects of gauge symmetry

I Quiros - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
In this paper we discuss on the phenomenological viability of nonmetricity theories of gravity
which are based in the class of generalized Weyl spacetimes—denoted by W 4—where …

Phenomenological signatures of gauge invariant theories of gravity with vectorial nonmetricity

I Quiros - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we discuss on the phenomenological footprints of gauge invariant theories of
gravity where the gravitational effects are due not only to spacetime curvature, but also to …

Third-order relativistic fluid dynamics at finite density in a general hydrodynamic frame

SM Diles, AS Miranda, LAH Mamani… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The motion of water is governed by the Navier–Stokes equations, which are complemented
by the continuity equation to ensure local mass conservation. In this work, we construct the …

Geometrical trinity of unimodular gravity

Y Nakayama - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct a Weyl transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of teleparallel gravity by
employing the Weyl compensator formalism. The low-energy dynamics has a single spin two …

Conformally invariant proper time with general non-metricity

A Delhom, IP Lobo, GJ Olmo, C Romero - The European Physical Journal …, 2020 - Springer
We show that the definition of proper time for Weyl-invariant space-times given by Perlick
naturally extends to spaces with arbitrary non-metricity. We then discuss the relation …

Hamiltonian analysis of metric-affine-R 2 theory

D Glavan, T Zlosnik, C Lin - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the number of propagating degrees of freedom in metric-affine theories of
gravity requires the use of Hamiltonian constraint analysis, except in some subclasses of …

Gauge invariant theory of gravity in spacetime with gradient nonmetricity: A possible resolution of several cosmological puzzles

I Quiros - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05007, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper we apply the symmetry principle in order to search for an alternative unified
explanation of several cosmological puzzles such as the present stage of accelerated …