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gr-qc2026

Light propagation and intensity transport in metric-affine geometry

Antonio De Felice, Lavinia Heisenberg, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

The paper investigates how electromagnetic waves travel in spacetimes with torsion and non‑metricity, constructing gauge‑invariant models that can alter light cones, cause birefrin…

astro-ph.CO2026

Minimally modified gravity with Laplacian auxiliary constraints and an inflationary realization

Jakkrit Sangtawee, Antonio De Felice, Khamphee Karwan

The paper proposes a minimally modified gravity theory that retains only two tensorial gravitational degrees of freedom by introducing Laplacian‑coupled auxiliary constraints, and…

gr-qc2026

Defocusing dark energy: Raychaudhuri diagnostics beyond and the phantom divide

Özgür Akarsu, Antonio De Felice, N. Merve Uzun

In general relativity, cosmic acceleration is timelike defocusing of the comoving congruence and requires a negative total active gravitational mass density, $\mathcal{M}_{\rm tot}…

hep-th2026

Evading Cosmological Strong Coupling in Non-minimally Coupled Vector Gravity

Antonio De Felice, Seishi Enomoto, Nagisa Hiroshima +1

Recent analyses of Proca theories with non-minimal curvature couplings have uncovered an additional scalar degree of freedom with an identically vanishing propagation speed, $c_s^2…

gr-qc2026

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

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa

The paper analyzes static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in Horndeski scalar‑tensor theories and shows that generic regular horizons are obstructed by instabilities, l…

astro-ph.CO2026

Data-Driven Discovery of a Simple Phantom-Crossing Dark Energy Parametrization

Giulia Borghetto, Ameek Malhotra, Simran Arora +4

We develop a data-driven reconstruction programme for the dark-energy equation of state within VCDM, a minimally modified gravity framework in which both background and linear pert…