Description
Torsion has been proved to be crucial in gauging gravity, which is in turn a necessary
step towards its quantization. On the other hand, almost all the efforts in modifying gravity has
been performed in the usual curvature-based framework. We investigate theories of modified
gravity based on its torsional-teleparallel formulation, and their cosmological applications.
Moreover, we analyze the perturbations of the theory examining the growth history, we
construct a cosmological bounce, and we use solar system and cosmological observations in
order to impose constraints on the torsional modifications. Finally, we study the case where
torsion is nonminimally coupled to a scalar field or its derivatives, as well as other extensions
of the theory, using higher-order torsion invariants, or various torsion-matter couplings.