Over the past decade, f (R) theories have been extensively studied as one of the simplest
modifications to General Relativity. In this article we review various applications of f (R) …

We review in detail a number of approaches that have been adopted to try and explain the
remarkable observation of our accelerating universe. In particular we discuss the arguments …

ABSTRACT The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year data provide
stringent limits on deviations from the minimal, six-parameter Λ cold dark matter model. We …

Over recent decades, the role of torsion in gravity has been extensively investigated along
the main direction of bringing gravity closer to its gauge formulation and incorporating spin …

We review different dark energy cosmologies. In particular, we present the Λ CDM
cosmology, Little Rip and Pseudo-Rip universes, the phantom and quintessence …

A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, Ω mh 2, baryon
density, Ω bh 2, Hubble constant, H 0, amplitude of fluctuations, σ 8, optical depth, τ, and a …

We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of
46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers …

We review theories of dark matter (DM) beyond the collisionless paradigm, known as self-
interacting dark matter (SIDM), and their observable implications for astrophysical structure …

We measure cosmic weak lensing shear power spectra with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-
Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalog covering 137 deg2 of the sky. Thanks to the high …

We simulate the growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes by
implementing a suite of semi-analytic models on the output of the Millennium Run, a very …