Stellar structure models in modified theories of gravity: Lessons and challenges

GJ Olmo, D Rubiera-Garcia, A Wojnar - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The understanding of stellar structure represents the crossroads of our theories of the
nuclear force and the gravitational interaction under the most extreme conditions observably …

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 …

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 …

Pathological Character of Modifications to Coincident General Relativity: Cosmological Strong Coupling and Ghosts in Theories

D Aguiar Gomes, J Beltrán Jiménez, A Jiménez Cano… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The intrinsic presence of ghosts in the symmetric teleparallel framework is elucidated. We
illustrate our general arguments in f (Q) theories by studying perturbations in the three …

Metric-Affine Gravity as an effective field theory

A Baldazzi, O Melichev, R Percacci - Annals of Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss theories of gravity with independent metric (or frame field) and connection, from
the point of view of effective field theory. We count the parity-even Lagrangian terms of …

Coupling metric-affine gravity to the standard model and dark matter fermions

C Rigouzzo, S Zell - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations, which are equivalent in pure gravity.
Once matter is included, however, observable predictions generically depend on the version …

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

C Rigouzzo, S Zell - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but
generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief overview of …

Cosmological gravity probes: Connecting recent theoretical developments to forthcoming observations

S Arai, K Aoki, Y Chinone, R Kimura… - … of Theoretical and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the present universe, significant
theoretical developments have been made in the area of modified gravity. In the meantime …

Unveiling phase space modifications: A clash of modified gravity and the generalized uncertainty principle

A Wojnar - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
This study explores the link between modified gravity and modifications of phase space
volume. Analyzing Fermi gas modifications in the nonrelativistic limit of the Ricci-based …

Black hole solutions in scalar-tensor symmetric teleparallel gravity

S Bahamonde, JG Valcarcel, L Järv… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Symmetric teleparallel gravity is constructed with a nonzero nonmetricity tensor while both
torsion and curvature are vanishing. In this framework, we find exact scalarised spherically …