Realistic neutron star models in $f(T)$ gravity

Rui-Hui Lin, Xiao-Ning Chen, Xiang-Hua Zhai

We investigate the nonrotating neutron stars in $f(T)$ gravity with $f(T)=T+\alpha T^2$, where $T$ is the torsion scalar in the teleparallel formalism of gravity. In particular, we uti…