Cosmology in f(R,L) gravity

Modified gravity and cosmology

Lorentzian Gravity and Cosmology

If a material vacuum exists, with the properties of a superfluid through which already recognized material moves, then it is capable of acting as a universal reference frame and as an intermediary for the production of particle pairs throughout the universe, which as they cool and recombine, become the source of both high-and low-temperature cosmic background radiation, as observed. Moreover, i...

Non-singular Cosmology in Modified Gravity

A non-singular cosmology is derived in modified gravity (MOG). The universe begins in the distant past in a contracting de Sitter phase, is non-singular at t = 0 and then describes approximately the standard radiation dominated solution before the time of decoupling. The spacetime in the neighborhood of t = 0 is described by Minkowski spacetime in which the Weyl curvature tensor vanishes and th...

Inflationary Cosmology in Modified Gravity Theories

We review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as R gravity with its extensions in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation realized by three kinds of effects: modification of gravity, the quantum anomaly, and the R term in loop quantum cosmology. It is explicitly demonstrated that in these inflationary models, the spectral index of sca...

Averaging Problem in Cosmology and Macroscopic Gravity