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 …

Metric-affine Myrzakulov gravity theories

N Myrzakulov, R Myrzakulov, L Ravera - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we review the so-called Myrzakulov Gravity models (MG-N, with N= I, II,…, VIII)
and derive their respective metric-affine generalizations (MAMG-N), discussing also their …

Inflation in metric-affine quadratic gravity

ID Gialamas, K Tamvakis - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In the general framework of Metric-Affine theories of gravity, where the metric and the
connection are independent variables, we consider actions quadratic in the Ricci scalar …

Landau damping for gravitational waves in parity-violating theories

F Bombacigno, F Moretti, S Boudet… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss how tensor polarizations of gravitational waves can suffer Landau damping in
the presence of velocity birefringence, when parity symmetry is explicitly broken. In …

Torsional birefringence in metric-affine Chern-Simons gravity: gravitational waves in late-time cosmology

S Boudet, F Bombacigno, F Moretti… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In the context of the metric-affine Chern-Simons gravity endowed with projective invariance,
we derive analytical solutions for torsion and nonmetricity in the homogeneous and isotropic …

Scalar induced gravitational waves in symmetric teleparallel gravity with a parity-violating term

F Zhang, JX Feng, X Gao - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) are useful to test gravitational theories and to probe the physics
in the early universe. In this paper, we investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves …

Scalar induced gravitational waves from Chern-Simons gravity during inflation era

JX Feng, F Zhang, X Gao - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS)
gravity with a dynamical scalar field during slow roll inflation. Due to the parity violation in …

Big bounce and future time singularity resolution in Bianchi I cosmologies: The projective invariant Nieh-Yan case

F Bombacigno, S Boudet, GJ Olmo, G Montani - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We extend the notion of the Nieh-Yan invariant to generic metric-affine geometries, where
both torsion and nonmetricity are taken into account. Notably, we show that the properties of …

Kalb-Ramond field and gravitational parity violation

T Manton, S Alexander - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Gravitational wave physics can probe theories that extend beyond general relativity.
Motivated by recent attention on the Kalb-Ramond field as a dark matter candidate, in this …

Circularly polarized scalar induced gravitational waves from the Chern-Simons modified gravity

F Zhang, JX Feng, X Gao - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS)
modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized …