We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of
modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time …

The properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson together with the absence of new
physics at collider experiments allows us to speculate about consistently extending the …

We present cosmological parameter constraints based on the final nine-year Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data, in conjunction with a number of additional …

We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and produce
cosmological perturbations in accordance with cosmological observations. An essential …

The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

Beyond Einstein's Gravity is a graduate level introduction to extended theories of gravity and
cosmology, including variational principles, the weak-field limit, gravitational waves …

Nature's simplest field, the scalar field, has been the protagonist of physical theories for a
long time. Even before the publication of the theory of general relativity G. Nordström …

We analyse the self-consistency of inflation in the Standard Model, where the Higgs field has
a large non-minimal coupling to gravity. We determine the domain of energies in which this …

In this work, we study the neutron star phenomenology of R p attractor theories in the
Einstein frame. The Einstein frame R p attractor theories have the attractor property that they …

In recent years, the use of conformal transformation techniques has become widespread in
the literature on gravitational theories alternative to general relativity, on cosmology, and on …