A systematic approach to generalisations of General Relativity and their cosmological implications

L Heisenberg - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
A century ago, Einstein formulated his elegant and elaborate theory of General Relativity,
which has so far withstood a multitude of empirical tests with remarkable success …

Large fluctuations and primordial black holes

S Choudhury, M Sami - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial
fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and …

Galileon inflation evades the no-go for PBH formation in the single-field framework

S Choudhury, S Panda, M Sami - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider Galileon inflation in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework and examine
the possibility for PBH formation during slow roll (SR) to ultra slow roll (USR) transitions. We …

Beyond the cosmological standard model

A Joyce, B Jain, J Khoury, M Trodden - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
After a decade and a half of research motivated by the accelerating universe, theory and
experiment have reached a certain level of maturity. The development of theoretical models …

Cosmological tests of modified gravity

K Koyama - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent progress in the construction of modified gravity models as alternatives to
dark energy as well as the development of cosmological tests of gravity. Einstein's theory of …

[HTML][HTML] Modified gravity and cosmology

T Clifton, PG Ferreira, A Padilla, C Skordis - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified
theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover …

Generalized G-Inflation: —Inflation with the Most General Second-Order Field Equations—

T Kobayashi, M Yamaguchi… - Progress of Theoretical …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We study generalized Galileons as a framework to develop the most general single-field
inflation models ever, Generalized G-inflation, containing yet further generalization of G …

Dark energy in Horndeski theories after GW170817: A review

R Kase, S Tsujikawa - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2019 - World Scientific
The gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger together
with the electromagnetic counterpart showed that the speed of GWs ct is very close to that of …

[HTML][HTML] Scalar induced gravity waves from ultra slow-roll Galileon inflation

S Choudhury, A Karde, S Panda, M Sami - Nuclear Physics B, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider the production of secondary gravity waves in Galileon inflation with an ultra-
slow roll (USR) phase and show that the spectrum of scalar-induced gravitational waves …

Imperfect dark energy from kinetic gravity braiding

C Deffayet, O Pujolas, I Sawicki… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a large class of scalar-tensor models with interactions containing the second
derivatives of the scalar field but not leading to additional degrees of freedom. These models …