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 …

A clarification on prevailing misconceptions in unimodular gravity

GR Bengochea, G León, A Perez… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The traditional presentation of Unimodular Gravity (UG) consists on indicating that it is an
alternative theory of gravity that restricts the generic diffeomorphism invariance of General …

Traversable wormholes in the traceless gravity

P Sahoo, P Moraes, MM Lapola… - International Journal of …, 2021 - World Scientific
Wormholes are tunnels connecting different regions in spacetime. They were obtained
originally as a solution for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and according to this …

Nonconservative unimodular gravity: a viable cosmological scenario?

JC Fabris, MH Alvarenga, M Hamani-Daouda… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
In this work we review the issue of imposing the conservation of the energy–momentum
tensor as a necessary condition to recover the equivalence between the unimodular gravity …

Unimodular gravity traversable wormholes

AS Agrawal, B Mishra, P Moraes - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - Springer
Wormholes are outstanding solutions of Einstein's General Relativity. They were worked out
in the late 1980s by Morris and Thorne, who have figured out a recipe that wormholes must …

Diffusion in unimodular gravity: Analytical solutions, late-time acceleration, and cosmological constraints

C Corral, N Cruz, E González - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Unimodular gravity is an appealing approach to address the cosmological constant problem.
In this scenario, the vacuum energy density of quantum fields does not gravitate and the …

Stability analysis and constraints on interacting viscous cosmology

A Hernández-Almada, MA García-Aspeitia, J Magaña… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
In this work, we study the evolution of a spatially flat Universe by considering a viscous dark
matter and perfect fluids for dark energy and radiation, including an interaction term between …

Tidal Deformability of Neutron Stars in Unimodular Gravity

RX Yang, F Xie, DJ Liu - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unimodular gravity is a modified theory with respect to general relativity by an extra
condition that the determinant of the metric is fixed. Especially, if the energy-momentum …

The Universe acceleration from the Unimodular gravity view point: Background and linear perturbations

MA García-Aspeitia, A Hernández-Almada… - Physics of the Dark …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the goal of studying the cosmological constant (CC) problem, we present an exhaustive
analysis of unimodular gravity as a possible candidate to resolve the CC origin and with this …

Spherically Symmetric Configurations in Unimodular Gravity

JC Fabris, MH Daouda, H Velten - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unimodular gravity (UG) is often deemed comparable to General Relativity (GR) in many
respects, despite the theory exhibiting invariance under a more limited set of diffeomorphic …