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most citedA class of ghost-free theories in symmetric teleparallel geometry

21 citations · 32 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

gr-qc2026

The Lanczos potential in the Plebanski paradigm of gravity

Daniel Espín, Alejandro Jiménez Cano, Javier Olmedo +1

We present a new Plebanski formulation of General Relativity. The key difference is that we work with a gauge vector field derived from the Lanczos potential of the Weyl tensor. We…

gr-qc2026

Physical nonviability of in the scalar-tensor representation

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez Cano, Tomi S. Koivisto

We show the known pathological character of gravity in its scalar-tensor representation.

gr-qc2026

Cosmological Spacetimes with Sign-Changing Spatial Curvature and Topological Transitions

Gerardo García-Moreno, Bert Janssen, Alejandro Jiménez Cano +3

Observational evidence, together with practical computations and modeling, supports a Euclidean spatial sector in the current cosmological model based on the FLRW metric. This, how…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Toroidal black holes in four dimensions

Carlos Barceló, Gerardo García-Moreno, Alejandro Jiménez Cano

From a purely geometric (kinematic) perspective, black holes in four dimensional spacetimes can have event horizons with arbitrary topologies. It is only when energy conditions are…

gr-qc2024★ 3 cited

Foliation-generating observers under Lorentz transformations

Daniel Blixt, Alejandro Jiménez Cano, Aneta Wojnar

In this work, we revise the concept of foliation and related aspects that are crucial when formulating the Hamiltonian evolution for various theories beyond General Relativity. In…

gr-qc2024★ 21 cited

A class of ghost-free theories in symmetric teleparallel geometry

Antonio G. Bello-Morales, Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez Cano +2

Theories formulated in the arena of teleparallel geometries are generically plagued by ghost-like instabilities or other pathologies that are ultimately caused by the breaking of s…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Pathological Character of Modifications to Coincident General Relativity: Cosmological Strong Coupling and Ghosts in $f(\Q)$ Theories

Débora Aguiar Gomes, Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez Cano +1

The intrinsic presence of ghosts in the symmetric teleparallel framework is elucidated. We illustrate our general arguments in theories by studying perturbations in…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Nonexistence of a parent theory for general relativity and unimodular gravity

Gerardo García-Moreno, Alejandro Jiménez Cano

General Relativity (GR) and Unimodular Gravity (UG) provide two equivalent descriptions of gravity that differ in the nature of the cosmological constant. While GR is based on the…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

On the physical viability of black hole solutions in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity and its generalisations

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez-Cano

In this note, we discuss the pathological nature of black holes in Einsteinian Cubic gravity and its extensions. We compute the equations for the odd perturbations and show how sph…