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Universe, Volume 1, Issue 2

2015 September - 8 articles

Cover Story: In extended theories of gravity, the universe can self-accelerate without introducing a cosmological constant or dark energy. In this context, also the dynamics of galaxies and larger structures might be explained without dark matter. A natural framework for such extensions is achieved by a new gravitational connection besides the standard metric connection. This leads to the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, where a further f(R) gravity contribution is considered. The curvature of the new connection can bring about interesting astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, whilst the local tests of gravity are passed more smoothly than in models based on solely the metrical connection, and while avoiding the theoretical problems that might compromise the models without the metrical connection. In general, hybrid-gravity can account for dark side without introducing new unknown matter ingredients. View Paper here
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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,154 Views
15 Pages

9 September 2015

In this note, we construct Noether charges for the chiral supergravity, which contains the Lorentz Chern–Simons term, by applying Wald’s prescription to the vielbein formalism. We investigate the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence by using the vielbein formali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,196 Views
53 Pages

2 September 2015

In this paper, we explore the interior dynamics of neutral and charged black holes in f(R) gravity. We transform f(R) gravity from the Jordan frame into the Einstein frame and simulate scalar collapses in flat, Schwarzschild, and Reissner-Nordström g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
156 Citations
7,253 Views
40 Pages

Hybrid Metric-Palatini Gravity

  • Salvatore Capozziello,
  • Tiberiu Harko,
  • Tomi S. Koivisto,
  • Francisco S. N. Lobo and
  • Gonzalo J. Olmo

27 August 2015

Recently, the phenomenology of f(R) gravity has been scrutinized. This scrutiny has been motivated by the possibility to account for the self-accelerated cosmic expansion without invoking dark energy sources. Besides, this kind of modified gravity is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
5,725 Views
13 Pages

Generalized ƒ(R,Φ, X) Gravity and the Late-Time Cosmic Acceleration

  • Sebastian Bahamonde,
  • Christian G. Böhmer,
  • Francisco S.N. Lobo and
  • Diego Sáez-Gómez

18 August 2015

High-precision observational data have confirmed with startling evidence that the Universe is currently undergoing a phase of accelerated expansion. This phase, one of the most important and challenging current problems in cosmology, represents a new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
7,074 Views
13 Pages

Nonsingular Black Holes in ƒ (R) Theories

  • Gonzalo J. Olmo and
  • Diego Rubiera-Garcia

4 August 2015

We study the structure of a family of static, spherically symmetric space-times generated by an anisotropic fluid and governed by a particular type of f(R) theory. We find that for a range of parameters with physical interest, such solutions represen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,586 Views
35 Pages

Constraining ƒ(R) Gravity by the Large-Scale Structure

  • Ivan De Martino,
  • Mariafelicia De Laurentis and
  • Salvatore Capozziello

30 July 2015

Over the past few decades, general relativity and the concordance ΛCDM model have been successfully tested using several different astrophysical and cosmological probes based on large datasets (precision cosmology). Despite their successes, some shor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
5,728 Views
31 Pages

20 July 2015

In this paper, we establish the correspondence between ghost-free bimetric theory and a class of higher derivative gravity actions, including conformal gravity and new massive gravity. We also characterize the relation between the respective equation...

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