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most citedInduced Gravitational Wave interpretation of PTA data: a complete study for general equation of state

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23 papers

gr-qc2026

All Quiet on the Vector Front: Scalar Growth and Perturbative Control in Horndeski--Weyl-squared Gravity

Antonio De Felice, Guillem Domènech, Jan Tränkle

Higher-order curvature corrections to general relativity arise naturally in many fundamental theories and provide phenomenologically interesting low-energy effective field theories…

gr-qc2026

Unpolarized Low-Frequency Tail of Causal Chiral Gravitational Waves

Tikinas Chabour, Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz +1

Parity violation in the early Universe may lead to a chiral gravitational wave background. We show that, for finite-time parity-violating sources, the low-frequency tail of the gen…

hep-th2026

The cosmology of long range Yukawa interactions in general backgrounds

Guillem Dom`enech, Panagiotis Giannadakis

Long-range forces in the early universe may lead to early structure formation and, perhaps, to primordial black holes. We generalise previous studies of fermions coupled to a light…

gr-qc2026

Gravitational wave constraints on the Paneitz operator

Robin Valtin, Alexander Ganz, Guillem Domènech

The Paneitz operator is a dimension-4 conformally invariant fourth-order differential operator that has recently attracted attention for possible cancellations of the vacuum energy…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Observable Gravitational Wave Strain at Second Order

Guillem Domènech, Shi Pi, Ao Wang

There is currently no rigorous definition of gravitational wave strain at second order in cosmological perturbation theory. The usual association of gravitational waves with transv…

gr-qc2025

On the adiabatic initial conditions for a particle gas in cosmology

Guillem Domènech

In view of recent interest in the role of "dark" radiation in cosmology, such as cosmic gravitational waves, sterile neutrinos, and dark photons, we clarify the definition of adiab…

hep-ph2025

Apparent Lorentz violation from disformally coupled ultralight dark matter

Guillem Domènech, Apostolos Tsabodimos, Apostolos Tsampodimos +3

We study the impact of general disformal metric transformations on fermions, which shift the gravitational metric by an additional rank-2 tensor. This tensor can in principle be co…

hep-th2025

On the consistent disformal couplings to fermions

Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz, Apostolos Tsabodimos +1

Disformal couplings to fermions lead to a unique derivative coupling to the axial fermionic current, which contains higher derivatives in general. We derive general conditions on c…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Unique gravitational wave signatures of GLPV scalar-tensor theories

Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz, Mohammad Ali Gorji +1

We study gravitational waves induced by scalar primordial fluctuations in Gleyzes-Langlois-Piazza-Vernizzi (GLPV), beyond Horndeski, scalar-tensor theories. We uncover, at the leve…

gr-qc2025★ 4 cited

Gravitational waves induced by matter isocurvature in general cosmologies

Guillem Domènech, Jan Tränkle

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational wa…

hep-ph2025

Induced Gravitational Waves as Cosmic Tracers of Leptogenesis

Marco Chianese, Guillem Domènech, Theodoros Papanikolaou +2

We demonstrate that induced gravitational waves (IGWs) can naturally emerge within well-motivated realizations of thermal leptogenesis, thereby providing a possible observational h…

gr-qc2025

Regularizing the induced GW spectrum with dissipative effects

Guillem Domènech, Jens Chluba

Finite mean free paths of light particles, like photons and neutrinos, lead to dissipative effects and damping of small-scale density fluctuations in the early universe. We study t…

gr-qc2025

Connecting Relativistic MOND Theories with Mimetic Gravity

Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz

We find a connection between relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theories and (scalar) mimetic gravity. We first demonstrate that any relativistic MOND model featuring…

gr-qc2024★ 27 cited

From formation to evaporation: Induced gravitational wave probes of the primordial black hole reheating scenario

Guillem Domènech, Jan Tränkle

We study the Primordial Black Hole (PBH) reheating scenario, where PBHs originate in a general cosmological background. In this scenario, ultralight PBHs with masses $M\lesssim 10^…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Finite distance effects on the Hellings-Downs curve in modified gravity

Guillem Domènech, Apostolos Tsabodimos, Apostolos Tsampodimos

There is growing interest in the overlap reduction function in pulsar timing array observations as a probe of modified gravity. However, current approximations to the Hellings-Down…

gr-qc2024

Enhanced induced gravitational waves in Horndeski gravity

Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz

We study secondary gravitational wave production in Horndenski gravity, when the scalar field dominates the very early universe. We find that higher derivative interactions easily…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 47 cited

Induced Gravitational Wave interpretation of PTA data: a complete study for general equation of state

Guillem Domènech, Shi Pi, Ao Wang +1

We thoroughly study the induced gravitational wave interpretation of the possible gravitational wave background reported by PTA collaborations, considering the unknown equation of…

gr-qc2024★ 40 cited

Probing modified Hawking evaporation with gravitational waves from the primordial black hole dominated universe

Shyam Balaji, Guillem Domènech, Gabriele Franciolini +2

It has been recently proposed that Hawking evaporation might slow down after a black hole has lost about half of its mass. Such an effect, called "memory burden", is parameterized…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

GW Backgrounds associated with PBHs

Guillem Domènech

PBH formation requires high-density regions in the (random) density field filling the primordial universe. While only the largest (and so rarest) overdensities collapse to form PBH…

gr-qc2024

Probing Primordial Black Hole Scenarios with Terrestrial Gravitational Wave Detectors

Guillem Domènech, Misao Sasaki

It is possible that primordial black holes consitute (or consituted) a significant fraction of the energy budget of our universe. Terrestrial gravitational wave detectors offer the…

gr-qc2023

Cosmological Gravitational Waves from Isocurvature Fluctuations

Guillem Domènech

Gravitational waves induced by large primordial curvature fluctuations may result in a sizable stochastic gravitational wave background. Interestingly, curvature fluctuations are g…

gr-qc2023★ 12 cited

Parametric resonance of gravitational waves in general scalar-tensor theories

Yi-Fu Cai, Guillem Domènech, Alexander Ganz +3

Gravitational waves offer a potent mean to test the underlying theory of gravity. In general theories of gravity, such as scalar-tensor theories, one expects modifications in the f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

An exact model for enhancing/suppressing primordial fluctuations

Guillem Domènech, Gerson Vargas, Teófilo Vargas

Enhancements of primordial curvature fluctuations in single field inflation often involve departures from attractor trajectories in the phase space. We study enhancement/suppressio…