Modified gravity theories on a nutshell: Inflation, bounce and late-time evolution

S Nojiri, SD Odintsov, VK Oikonomou - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of
modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time …

Mimetic gravity: a review of recent developments and applications to cosmology and astrophysics

L Sebastiani, S Vagnozzi… - Advances in High Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mimetic gravity is a Weyl‐symmetric extension of General Relativity, related to the latter by a
singular disformal transformation, wherein the appearance of a dust‐like perfect fluid can …

Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A

S Vagnozzi, R Roy, YD Tsai, L Visinelli… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Horizon-scale images of black holes (BHs) and their shadows have opened an
unprecedented window onto tests of gravity and fundamental physics in the strong-field …

New physics in light of the tension: An alternative view

S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The strong discrepancy between local and early-time (inverse distance ladder) estimates of
the Hubble constant H 0 could be pointing towards new physics beyond the concordance Λ …

Tale of stable interacting dark energy, observational signatures, and the H0 tension

W Yang, S Pan, E Di Valentino… - … of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the observational consequences of a novel class of stable interacting dark
energy (IDE) models, featuring interactions between dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) …

Event Horizon Telescope observations exclude compact objects in baseline mimetic gravity

M Khodadi, S Vagnozzi, JT Firouzjaee - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Mimetic gravity has gained significant appeal in cosmological contexts, but static spherically
symmetric space-times within the baseline theory are highly non-trivial: the two natural …

Revisiting a negative cosmological constant from low-redshift data

L Visinelli, S Vagnozzi, U Danielsson - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Persisting tensions between high-redshift and low-redshift cosmological observations
suggest the dark energy sector of the Universe might be more complex than the positive …

Improved bounds on Lorentz violation from composite pulse Ramsey spectroscopy in a trapped ion

LS Dreissen, CH Yeh, HA Fürst… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In attempts to unify the four known fundamental forces in a single quantum-consistent theory,
it is suggested that Lorentz symmetry may be broken at the Planck scale. Here we search for …

Cosmological direct detection of dark energy: Non-linear structure formation signatures of dark energy scattering with visible matter

F Ferlito, S Vagnozzi, DF Mota… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We consider the recently proposed possibility that dark energy (DE) and baryons may
scatter through a pure momentum exchange process, leaving the background evolution …

Hubble tension as a guide for refining the early Universe: Cosmologies with explicit local Lorentz and diffeomorphism violation

M Khodadi, M Schreck - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper is dedicated to assessing modified cosmological settings based on the
gravitational Standard-Model Extension (SME). Our analysis rests upon the Hubble tension …