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most citedConditions for the cosmological viability of the most general scalar-tensor theories and their applications to extended Galileon dark energy models

240 citations · 319 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

gr-qc2026

Perturbations and stability of black holes with static scalar hair in general GLPV theories

Petarpa Boonserm, Antonio De Felice, Ratchaphat Nakarachinda +2

We derive the background equations and complete odd- and even-parity quadratic actions for static, spherically symmetric black holes with radial scalar hair in general quartic-quin…

gr-qc2026

Static regular black holes in Horndeski theories: analytic no-go and nonanalytic obstructions

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

Regular black holes in Horndeski theories must have stable horizons and regular centers. We study static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat configurations with a time-inde…

astro-ph.CO2026

A solid unification of the dark sector

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, María Pérez Garrote, Florencia A. Teppa Pannia +1

We construct a unified description of dark matter and dark energy in terms of a single dark component that behaves as a pressureless fluid in the early Universe and undergoes a tra…

gr-qc2026

Inspiral gravitational waveforms from charged compact binaries with scalar hair

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

We investigate gravitational waveforms from compact binary systems in Einstein-scalar-Maxwell (ESM) theories, where a scalar field couples to a gauge field through…

astro-ph.CO2026

Revisiting observational constraints on coupled exponential quintessence with energy and momentum transfers: degeneracy with massive neutrinos

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Xiaolin Liu +2

We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos on cosmological models in which dark energy, described by a quintessence scalar field with an exponential potential, interacts wi…

gr-qc2026

Light rings, gravitational lensing, and ISCOs of exotic compact objects in Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

In Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories with a coupling between the scalar field and the electromagnetic field strength of the form , we investigate the existence of ex…

hep-ph2025

Higgs-Portal Stueckelberg Dark Matter

Antonio De Felice, Takehiro Ogura, Shinji Tsujikawa +1

We study dark photon dark matter associated with a dark gauge symmetry. To evade laboratory and cosmological constraints on kinetic mixing with the Standard Model $U(1…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Exotic compact objects in Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

In k-essence theories within general relativity, where the matter Lagrangian depends on a real scalar field and its kinetic term , static and spherically symmetric compact o…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Vector Horndeski black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics

Che-Yu Chen, Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa +1

On a spherically symmetric and static background, we study the existence of linearly stable black hole (BH) solutions in nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) with a Horndeski vector-ten…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Instability of regular planar black holes in four dimensions arising from an infinite sum of curvature corrections

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

In four-dimensional scalar-tensor theories derived via dimensional regularization with a conformal rescaling of the metric, we study the stability of planar black holes (BHs) whose…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Greybody factors of charged black holes with axion hair

Ratchaphat Nakarachinda, Petarpa Boonserm, Antonio De Felice +2

We study the greybody factor of charged hairy black holes (BHs) that arise due to the presence of an axion coupled to the electromagnetic field. Specifically, we consider spin-0 an…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Strong coupling and instabilities in singularity-free inflation from an infinite sum of curvature corrections

Shinji Tsujikawa

Four-dimensional gravitational theories derived from an infinite sum of Lovelock curvature invariants, combined with a conformal rescaling of the metric, are equivalent to a subcla…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Nonsingular black holes and spherically symmetric objects in nonlinear electrodynamics with a scalar field

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

In general relativity with vector and scalar fields given by the Lagrangian , where is a Maxwell term and is a kinetic term of the scalar field , we stu…

gr-qc2024★ 27 cited

Instability of nonsingular black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

We show that nonsingular black holes realized in nonlinear electrodynamics are always prone to Laplacian instability around the center because of a negative squared sound speed in…

gr-qc2024

Scrutinizing black hole stability in cubic vector Galileon theories

Antonio De Felice, Ryotaro Kase, Shinji Tsujikawa

In a subclass of generalized Proca theories where a cubic vector Galileon term breaks the gauge invariance, it is known that there are static and spherically symmetric black…

gr-qc2024

Even- and odd-parity stabilities of black holes in Einstein-Aether gravity

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Mukohyama, Shinji Tsujikawa +2

In Einstein-Aether theories with a timelike unit vector field, we study the linear stability of static and spherically symmetric black holes against both even- and odd-parity pertu…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Revisiting linear stability of black hole odd-parity perturbations in Einstein-Aether gravity

Shinji Mukohyama, Shinji Tsujikawa, Anzhong Wang

In Einstein-Aether gravity, we revisit the issue of linear stabilities of black holes against odd-parity perturbations on a static and spherically symmetric background. In this the…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Linear stability of vector Horndeski black holes

Che-Yu Chen, Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

Horndeski's vector-tensor (HVT) gravity is described by a Lagrangian in which the field strength of a vector field interacts with a dou…

gr-qc2024★ 6 cited

Angular and radial stabilities of spontaneously scalarized black holes in the presence of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet couplings

Masato Minamitsuji, Shinji Mukohyama, Shinji Tsujikawa

We study the linear stability of spontaneously scalarized black holes (BHs) induced by a scalar field coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet (GB) invariant . For the scalar-GB…

gr-qc2023★ 15 cited

Gravitational-wave constraints on scalar-tensor gravity from a neutron star and black-hole binary GW200115

Hiroki Takeda, Shinji Tsujikawa, Atsushi Nishizawa

In nonminimally coupled theories where a scalar field is coupled to the Ricci scalar, neutron stars (NSs) can have scalar charges through an interaction with matter mediated by gra…

gr-qc2011★ 240 cited

Conditions for the cosmological viability of the most general scalar-tensor theories and their applications to extended Galileon dark energy models

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories with second-order field equations, we derive the conditions for the avoidance of ghosts and Laplacian instabilities associate…

hep-ph2000★ 2 cited

Are Kaluza-Klein modes enhanced by parametric resonance?

S. Tsujikawa

We study parametric amplification of Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes in a higher -dimensional generalized Kaluza-Klein theory, which was originally considered by Mukohyama in the narrow…