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20102026
most cited gravity and cosmology

306 citations · 1.1k across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

gr-qc2026

Primordial black hole production in scalar field inflation within gravity

Daniel Villalobos-Silva, Yerko Vásquez, Giovanni Otalora

We investigate inflation in modified teleparallel gravity within a scalar-tensor framework. We focus on two viable extensions of the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity:…

gr-qc2026

Non-minimally coupled loop quantum inflation with inverse-volume corrections

Rudranil Roy, Giovanni Otalora, Joel Saavedra +1

We study slow-roll inflation driven by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity within the effective framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), including inverse-volume corr…

gr-qc2025

Higgs-like inflation in scalar-torsion gravity in light of ACT-SPT-DESI constraints

Nitesh Kumar, Giovanni Otalora, Rodrigo Reyes +3

We study Higgs-like inflation in the framework of scalar-torsion gravity, focusing on the general class of theories in which gravitation is mediated by torsion rather than…

gr-qc2025

Cosmological dynamics of interacting dark matter-dark energy in generalized Rastall gravity

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Ramón Herrera, Giovanni Otalora +2

In this work, we investigate late-time interacting cosmologies within the framework of generalized Rastall gravity, where the interaction arises naturally from the non-conservation…

gr-qc2025

Slow-Fast Evolution of Scalar Fields in Higher-Order Cosmological Gravity: Dynamics Inspired by the Pais--Uhlenbeck Oscillator

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Genly Leon, Yoelsy Leyva +3

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of scalar fields governed by higher-order gravity, with particular emphasis on models inspired by the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator--a prototyp…

gr-qc2025

Late-time acceleration and structure formation in interacting -attractor dark energy models

L. K. Duchaniya, B. Mishra, G. Otalora +1

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy within the framework of -attractor models. Specifically, we analyze the associated autonomous system, focusin…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 299 cited

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Classical and quantum cosmology of gravity's rainbow in Schutz's formalism

Andrés Burton-Villalobos, Giovanni Otalora, Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza +1

We investigate the classical and quantum dynamics of gravity's rainbow in the presence of a perfect fluid, employing Schutz's formalism to establish a well-defined notion of…

astro-ph.GA2024

Exploring the Dark Age: Star and Galaxy formation in the Early Universe

K. El Bourakadi, G. Otalora

The Cosmic Dark Ages mark a pivotal era of the universe's evolution, transitioning from a neutral, opaque medium to the emergence of the first stars and galaxies that initiated cos…

gr-qc2024★ 6 cited

Cosmological Dynamics in Interacting Scalar-Torsion f(T,) Gravity: Investigating Energy and Momentum Couplings

Carlos Rodriguez-Benites, Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora +1

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of a homogeneous scalar field non-minimally coupled to torsion gravity, which also interacts with cold dark matter through energy and momen…

astro-ph.CO2024

Insights into Gravitinos Abundance, Cosmic Strings and Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

K. El Bourakadi, G. Otalora, A. Burton-Villalobos +3

In this paper, we investigate D-term inflation within the framework of supergravity, employing the minimal Kähler potential. Following previous studies that revealed that this mode…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Screening fifth forces in scalar-vector-tensor theories

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora, Lucila Kraiselburd +1

We study a screening mechanism in the context of scalar-vector-tensor (SVT) theories. This screening mechanism is based on both the derivative self-interactions of the vector field…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Revisiting the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy

Carlos Rodriguez-Benites, Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora +1

We revise the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy, a theoretical framework proposed to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. By investigating the interacti…

gr-qc2023★ 6 cited

Phase-space analysis of torsion-coupled dilatonic ghost condensate

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora, Yoelsy Leyva +1

We studied the cosmological dynamics of a dilatonic ghost condensate field as a source of dark energy, which is non-minimally coupled to gravity through torsion. We performed a det…

gr-qc2023

Constant-roll and primordial black holes in f(Q,T) gravity

K. El Bourakadi, M. Koussour, G. Otalora +2

In this study, we investigate the consequence of the constant-roll condition and examine the role of gravity in the cosmological inflation process. We analyze the inflatio…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Dynamics of dark energy in a scalar-vector-torsion theory

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora, Yoelsy Leyva +1

We study the cosmological dynamics of dark energy in a scalar-vector-torsion theory. The vector field is described by the cosmic triad and the scalar field is of the quintessence t…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Effective dark energy through spin-gravity coupling

Giovanni Otalora, Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate cosmological scenarios with spin-gravity coupling. In particular, due to the spin of the baryonic and dark matter particles and its coupling to gravity, they probe a…

gr-qc2022★ 10 cited

Revisiting gravity's rainbow: Inflation and primordial fluctuations

Yoelsy Leyva, Giovanni Otalora

We study inflation and the generation of primordial fluctuations in gravity's rainbow. We calculate the cosmological perturbations and then the scalar and tensor primordial…

gr-qc2021

Parametrized post-Newtonian formalism in higher-order Teleparallel Gravity

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora, Lucila Kraiselburd +1

We study the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit of higher-derivative-torsion Modified Teleparallel Gravity. We start from the covariant formulation of modified Teleparallel Gr…

gr-qc2021★ 13 cited

Inflation and Primordial Fluctuations in Gravity's Rainbow

Yoelsy Leyva, Carlos Leiva, Giovanni Otalora +1

We study slow-roll inflation and the generation of primordial fluctuations in gravity's rainbow. We obtain the second order action for scalar and tensor perturbations and th…

gr-qc2021★ 10 cited

Chaotic Inflation and Reheating in Generalized Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Matías López, Giovanni Otalora, Nelson Videla

In the present work, we study slow-roll inflation in scalar-tensor gravity theories in the presence of both the non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and curvature, and the…

gr-qc2021★ 36 cited

Reconstructing inflation in scalar-torsion gravity

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Ramón Herrera, Giovanni Otalora +1

It is investigated the reconstruction during the slow-roll inflation in the most general class of scalar-torsion theories whose Lagrangian density is an arbitrary function …

gr-qc2021★ 34 cited

Stability of scalar perturbations in scalar-torsion gravity theories in the presence of a matter fluid

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora, Joel Saavedra

We study the viability conditions for the absence of ghost, gradient and tachyonic instabilities, in scalar-torsion gravity theories in the presence of a general barotropi…

gr-qc2020★ 56 cited

Cosmological dynamics of dark energy in scalar-torsion gravity

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora

It is investigated the cosmological dynamics of scalar-torsion gravity as a dark energy model, where is the torsion scalar of teleparallel gravity and is a canonic…