Publications

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education" -- Albert Einstein

A: Books

Title: Extensions of f(R) gravity: Curvature-matter couplings and hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108645683 (2018)
Title: Wormholes, warp drives and energy conditions
Editor: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Springer Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 189
ISBN 978-3-319-55181-4 (2017)

B: Articles in Research Journals - Published

Title: Observational constraints of f(Q) gravity
Authors: Ruth Lazkoz, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Maria Ortiz-Banos, Vincenzo Salzano
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 100, 104027 (2019)
arXiv:1907.13219 [pdf, ps]
Title: Einstein-Cartan-Dirac gravity with U(1) symmetry breaking
Authors: Francisco Cabral, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 79: 1023 (2019)
arXiv:1902.02222 [pdf, ps]
Title: Spherically symmetric static vacuum solutions in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Bogdan Danila, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Man Kwong Mak
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 99, 064028 (2019)
arXiv:1811.02742 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormholes in generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity obeying the matter null energy condition everywhere
Authors: Joao Luis Rosa, Jose P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 98, 064054 (2018)
arXiv:1808.08975 [pdf]
Title: Wormhole geometries supported by three-form fields
Authors: Bruno J. Barros, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 98, 044012 (2018)
arXiv:1806.10488 [pdf]
Title: Coupling matter in modified Q-gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 98, 084043 (2018)
arXiv:1806.10437 [pdf, ps]
Title: Metric-affine f(R,T) theories of gravity and their applications
Authors: E. Barrientos, Francisco S. N. Lobo, S. Mendoza, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 97, 104041 (2018)
arXiv:1803.05525 [pdf, ps]
Title: Gravitational waves in theories with a non-minimal curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Claudio Gomes, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C (2018) 78:303
arXiv:1706.06826 [pdf, ps]
Title: Palatini wormholes and energy conditions from the prism of General Relativity
Authors: Cecilia Bejarano, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C (2017) 77: 776
arXiv:1607.01259 [pdf, ps]
Title: A Review on the Cosmology of the de Sitter Horndeski Models
Authors: Nelson J. Nunes, Prado Martin-Moruno, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Universe 2017, 3(2), 33
arXiv:1704.05376 [pdf]
Title: Electrodynamics and spacetime geometry: Astrophysical applications
Authors: Francisco Cabral, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal Plus 132 (2017) 304
arXiv:1603.08180 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmological Solutions in generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Joao Luis Rosa, Sante Carloni, Jose P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 95 (2017) 124035
arXiv:1703.03335 [pdf]
Title: SNe Ia and BAO observational constraints on hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Iker Leanizbarrutia, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Diego Saez-Gomez
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 95 (2017) 084046
arXiv:1701.08980 [pdf, ps]
Title: Gravitational waves and electrodynamics: New perspectives
Authors: Francisco Cabral, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 77 (2017) 237
arXiv:1603.08157 [pdf, ps]
Title: Evolution of spherical domain walls in solitonic symmetron models
Authors: Marzieh Peyravi, Nematollah Riazi, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95 (2017) 064047
arXiv:1606.05269 [pdf]
Title: Hybrid metric-Palatini stars
Authors: Bogdan Danila, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 95 (2017) 044031
arXiv:1608.02783 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmological models in modified gravity theories with extended nonminimal derivative couplings
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Minas Tsoukalas
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95 (2017) 044019
arXiv:1609.01503 [pdf, ps]
Title: Electrodynamics and spacetime geometry I: Foundations
Authors: Francisco Cabral, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Foundations of Physics 47 (2017) 208
arXiv:1602.01492 [pdf, ps]
Title: Unveiling the Dynamics of the Universe
Authors: Pedro Avelino, Tiago Barreiro, C. Sofia Carvalho, Antonio da Silva, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Prado Martin-Moruno, Jose Pedro Mimoso, Nelson J. Nunes, Diego Rubiera-Garcia, Diego Saez-Gomez, Lara Sousa, Ismael Tereno, Arlindo Trindade
Journal-ref: Symmetry 8 (2016) 70
arXiv:1607.02979 [pdf]
Title: Constraining f(T,T) gravity models using type Ia supernovae
Authors: Diego Saez-Gomez, C. Sofia Carvalho, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Ismael Tereno
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 94 (2016) 024034
arXiv:1603.09670 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmology with higher-derivative matter fields
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Journal-ref: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics 13 (2016) 1650102
arXiv:1405.7019 [pdf, ps]
Title: From the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge to the modern renaissance of traversable wormholess
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics 25 (2016) 1630017
arXiv:1604.02082 [pdf, ps]
Title: Novel third-order Lovelock wormhole solutions
Authors: Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 93 (2016) 124014
arXiv:1604.02913 [pdf, ps]
Title: Soliton models for thick branes
Authors: Marzieh Peyravi, Nematollah Riazi, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 76 (2016) 247
arXiv:1504.04603 [pdf]
Title: Comment on "Searching for Topological Defect Dark Matter via Nongravitational Signatures"
Authors: P.P. Avelino, L. Sousa, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review Letters 116 (2016) 169001
arXiv:1506.06028 [pdf, ps]
Title: Dynamical system analysis for nonminimal torsion-matter coupled gravity
Authors: Sante Carloni, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Giovanni Otalora, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 93 (2016) 024034
arXiv:1512.06996 [pdf]
Title: Traversable wormholes satisfying the weak energy condition in third-order Lovelock gravity
Authors: Mahdi Kord Zangeneh, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Mohammad Hossein Dehghani
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 92 (2015) 124049
arXiv:1510.07089 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak, Sergey V. Sushkov
Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters A 30 (2015) 35, 1550190
arXiv:1307.1883 [pdf, ps]
Title: A dynamical system analysis of hybrid metric-Palatini cosmologies
Authors: Sante Carloni, Tomi Koivisto, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 92 (2015) 064035
arXiv:1507.04306 [pdf, ps]
Title: Gravitational, lensing, and stability properties of Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter halos
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 92 (2015) 043011
arXiv:1505.00944 [pdf, ps]
Title: Irreversible matter creation processes through a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Tiberiu Harko, Jose P. Mimoso, Diego Pavon
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 75 (2015) 386
arXiv:1508.03069 [pdf, ps]
Title: Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Universe 1 (2015) 2, 199-238
arXiv:1508.04641 [pdf]
Title: Generalized f(R,φ,X) gravity and the late-time cosmic acceleration
Authors: Sebastian Bahamonde, Christian G. Boehmer, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Diego Saez-Gomez
Journal-ref: Universe 1 (2015) 2, 186-198
arXiv:1506.07728 [pdf, ps]
Title: Higher-dimensional thin-shell wormholes in third-order Lovelock gravity
Authors: Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh, Mahdi Kord Zangeneh, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 92 (2015) 044022
arXiv:1506.03427 [pdf, ps]
Title: Generalized energy conditions in Extended Theories of Gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jose P. Mimoso
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 91 (2015) 124019
arXiv:1407.7293 [pdf, ps]
Title: Crystal clear lessons on the microstructure of space-time and modified gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 91 (2015) 124001
arXiv:1412.4499 [pdf, ps]
Title: Attracted to de Sitter: cosmology of the linear Horndeski models
Authors: Prado Martin-Moruno, Nelson J. Nunes, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 05 (2015) 033
arXiv:1502.05878 [pdf]
Title: Horndeski theories self-tuning to a de Sitter vacuum
Authors: Prado Martin-Moruno, Nelson J. Nunes, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 91 (2015) 084029
arXiv:1502.03236 [pdf, ps]
Title: Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet traversable wormholes satisfying the weak energy condition
Authors: Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh, Mahdi Kord Zangeneh, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 91 (2015) 084004
arXiv:1501.04773 [pdf, ps]
Title: Invariant solutions and Noether symmetries in Hybrid Gravity
Authors: Andrzej Borowiec, Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Andronikos Paliathanasis, Mariacristina Paolella, Aneta Wojnar
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 91 (2015) 023517
arXiv:1407.4313 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries supported by quark matter at ultra-high densities
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D 24 (2015) 1550006
arXiv:1403.0771 [pdf, ps]
Title: f(T,\mathcal{T}) gravity and cosmology
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, G. Otalora, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 12 (2014) 021
arXiv:1405.0519 [pdf, ps]
Title: A class of exact solutions of the Lienard type ordinary non-linear differential equation
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Journal of Engineering Mathematics 89 (2014) 193-205
arXiv:1302.0836 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormholes minimally violating the null energy condition
Authors: Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Prado Martin-Moruno
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 11 (2014) 007
arXiv:1407.7758 [pdf]
Title: Bianchi type I cosmological models in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Galaxies 2(4) (2014) 496-519
arXiv:1410.5213 [pdf]
Title: Higher-dimensional evolving wormholes satisfying the null energy condition
Authors: Mahdi Kord Zangeneh, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Nematollah Riazi
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 90 (2014) 024072
arXiv:1406.5703 [pdf, ps]
Title: Generalized curvature-matter couplings in modified gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Galaxies 2(3) (2014) 410-465
arXiv:1407.2013 [pdf]
Title: Dynamical generation of wormholes with charged fluids in quadratic Palatini gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jesus Martinez-Asencio, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 90 (2014) 024033
arXiv:1403.0105 [pdf, ps]
Title: Nonminimal torsion-matter coupling extension of f(T) gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, G. Otalora, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 89 (2014) 124036
arXiv:1404.6212 [pdf, ps]
Title: Microscopic wormholes and the geometry of entanglement
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 74 (2014) 2924
arXiv:1402.5099 [pdf, ps]
Title: A Riccati equation based approach to isotropic scalar field cosmologies
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D 23 (2014) 1450063
arXiv:1402.4363 [pdf, ps]
Title: Gravity's Rainbow induces Topology Change
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 74 (2014) 2884
arXiv:1303.5566 [pdf, ps]
Title: Exact analytical solutions of the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model and of the SIR model with equal death and birth rates
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Applied Mathematics and Computation 236 (2014) 184-194
arXiv:1403.2160 [pdf, ps]
Title: Dark matter density profile and galactic metric in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak, Sergey V. Sushkov
Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters A 29 (2014) 1450049
arXiv:1305.0820 [pdf, ps]
Title: Planck scale physics and topology change through an exactly solvable model
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jesus Martinez-Asencio, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 71 (2014) 163-167
arXiv:1311.5712 [pdf, ps]
Title: Arbitrary scalar field and quintessence cosmological models
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 74 (2014) 2784
arXiv:1310.7167 [pdf, ps]
Title: The Cauchy problem in hybrid metric-Palatini f(X)-gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Stefano Vignolo
Journal-ref: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics 11 (2014) 1450042
arXiv:1312.1320 [pdf, ps]
Title: Energy conditions in modified gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Francisco S. N. Lobo, José P. Mimoso
Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 730 (2014) 280-283
arXiv:1312.0784 [pdf, ps]
Title: Analytical solutions of the Riccati equation with coefficients satisfying integral or differential conditions with arbitrary functions
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics 2 (2014) 109-118
arXiv:1311.1150 [pdf, ps]
Title: Linearized stability analysis of gravastars in noncommutative geometry
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Journal of High Energy Physics 1312 (2013) 065
arXiv:1004.2520 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Einstein static Universe in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Nicola Tamanini
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 88 (2013) 104019
arXiv:1305.0025 [pdf, ps]
Title: Galactic rotation curves in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Astroparticle Physics 50-52 (2013) 65-75
arXiv:1307.0752 [pdf, ps]
Title: A Chiellini type integrability condition for the generalized first kind Abel differential equation
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics 1 (2013) 101-104
arXiv:1310.1508 [pdf, ps]
Title: Hybrid modified gravity unifying local tests, galactic dynamics and late-time cosmic acceleration
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D 22 (2013) 1342006
Comments: Received an Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest 2013
arXiv:1305.3756 [pdf, ps]
Title: Structure of neutron, quark and exotic stars in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak, Sergey V. Sushkov
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 88 (2013) 044032
arXiv:1305.6770 [pdf, ps]
Title: Further matters in space-time geometry: $f(R,T,R_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity
Authors: Zahra Haghani, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Hamid Reza Sepangi, Shahab Shahidi
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 88 (2013) 044023
arXiv:1304.5957 [pdf, ps]
Title: Integrability cases for the anharmonic oscillator equation
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak
Journal-ref: Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics: Advances and Applications 10 (1) (2013) 115-129
arXiv:1304.1468 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmological anisotropy from non-comoving dark matter and dark energy
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 07 (2013) 036
arXiv:1304.0757 [pdf, ps]
Title: The virial theorem and the dark matter problem in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 07 (2013) 024
arXiv:1212.5817 [pdf, ps]
Title: Semiclassical geons as solitonic black hole remnants
Authors: Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 07 (2013) 011
arXiv:1306.2504 [pdf]
Title: New asymptotically flat phantom wormhole solutions
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Foad Parsaei, Nematollah Riazi
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 87 (2013) 084030
arXiv:1212.5806 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmology of hybrid metric-Palatini f(X)-gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 04 (2013) 011
arXiv:1209.2895 [pdf, ps]
Title: Modified-gravity wormholes without exotic matter
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, M. K. Mak, Sergey V. Sushkov
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 87 (2013) 067504
arXiv:1301.6878 [pdf, ps]
Title: Irreversible thermodynamic description of interacting dark energy-dark matter cosmological models
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 87 (2013) 044018
arXiv:1210.3617 [pdf, ps]
Title: Extended f(R,L_m) gravity with generalized scalar field and kinetic term dependences
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Olivier Minazzoli
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 87 (2013) 047501
arXiv:1210.4218 [pdf, ps]
Title: Geodesic deviation, Raychaudhuri equation, and tidal forces in modified gravity with an arbitrary curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 86 (2012) 124034
arXiv:1210.8044 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormholes supported by hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 86 (2012) 127504
arXiv:1209.5862 [pdf, ps]
Title: Generalized dark gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D 21 (2012) 1242019
Comments: Received an Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest 2012
arXiv:1205.3284 [pdf, ps]
Title: Generic spherically symmetric dynamic thin-shell traversable wormholes in standard general relativity
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 86 (2012) 044026
arXiv:1112.2057 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Solar System constraints on local dark matter density
Authors: Giuseppe De Risi, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 07 (2012) 047
arXiv:1206.2747 [pdf, ps]
Title: Metric-Palatini gravity unifying local constraints and late-time cosmic acceleration
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 85 (2012) 084016

arXiv:1110.1049 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Generic thin-shell gravastars
Authors: Prado Martin-Moruno, Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 03 (2012) 034
arXiv:1112.5253 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries in modified teleparralel gravity and the energy conditions
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 85 (2012) 044033

arXiv:1110.5756 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Could pressureless dark matter have pressure?
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Astroparticle Physics 35 (2012) 547-551

arXiv:1104.2674 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Self-sustained wormholes in modified dispersion relations
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 85 (2012) 024043
arXiv:1111.5729 [pdf, ps]
Title: Exact solutions of Brans-Dicke wormholes in the presence of matter
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters A 40 (2011) 3067-3076

arXiv:1106.3216 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Image formation by weak and strong gravitational lensing in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity
Authors: Zsolt Horváth, László Á. Gergely, Zoltán Keresztes, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 84 (2011) 083006
arXiv:1105.0765 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: f(R,T) gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 84 (2011) 024020
arXiv:1104.2669 [pdf, ps]
Title: Palatini formulation of modified gravity with a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Tomi S. Koivisto, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters A 26 (2011) 1467-1480
arXiv:1007.4415 [pdf, ps]
Title: Thin accretion disk signatures of slowly rotating black holes in Hořava gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 165001
arXiv:1009.1958 [pdf, ps]
Title: Two-fluid dark matter models
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 83 (2011) 124051
arXiv:1106.2642 [pdf, ps]
Title: Energy conditions in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo García, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, José P. Mimoso
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 83 (2011) 104032

arXiv:1011.4159 [pdf, ps]
Title: Nonminimal curvature-matter coupled wormholes with matter satisfying the null energy condition
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 085018

arXiv:1012.2443 [pdf, ps]
Title: Solar system tests of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467 (2011) 1390-1407, published online 24 Nov. 2010
arXiv:0908.2874 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Stability of the Einstein static universe in IR modified Hořava gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 70 (2010) 1111-1118
arXiv:0909.3986 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: f(R,L_m) gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: European Physical Journal C 70 (2010) 373-379
arXiv:1008.4193 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries supported by a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 82 (2010) 104018
arXiv:1007.3040 [pdf, ps]
Title: Possibility of hyperbolic tunneling
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, José P. Mimoso
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 82 (2010) 044034
arXiv:0907.3811 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Classical tests of general relativity in brane world models
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Giuseppe De Risi, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) 185013
arXiv:0910.3800 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Thin accretion disk signatures in dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) 105010
arXiv:0909.1267 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: General class of vacuum Brans-Dicke wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Miguel A. Oliveira
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 81 (2010) 067501
arXiv:1001.0995 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries in f(R) modified theories of gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Miguel A. Oliveira
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 80 (2009) 104012
arXiv:0909.5539 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Can accretion disk properties distinguish gravastars from black holes?
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 26 (2009) 215006
arXiv:0905.1355 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Testing Hořava-Lifshitz gravity using thin accretion disk properties
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 80 (2009) 044021
arXiv:0907.1449 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Stability of the Einstein static universe in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 79 (2009) 067504
arXiv:0902.2982 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Time and Causation
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Francisco S. N. Lobo,
Journal-ref: NeuroQuantology 1 (2009) 1-15
arXiv:0902.0559 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Thin accretion disks in stationary axisymmetric wormhole spacetimes
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 79 (2009) 064001
arXiv:0901.3926 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Self-sustained traversable wormholes in noncommutative geometry
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 671 (2009) 146-152
arXiv:0811.0919 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Exact solutions of f(R) gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics
Authors: Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 78 (2008) 124007
arXiv:0807.2325 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Phantom stars and topology change
Authors: Andrew DeBenedictis, Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 78 (2008) 104003
arXiv:0808.0839 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Electromagnetic signatures of thin accretion disks in wormhole geometries
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 78 (2008) 084005
arXiv:0808.3306 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Nonminimal coupling of perfect fluids to curvature
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jorge Páramos
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 78 (2008) 064036
arXiv:0806.4434 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Quark-Hadron Phase Transitions in Brane-World Cosmologies
Authors: Giuseppe De Risi, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Chun Shing Jason Pun,
Journal-ref: Nuclear Physics B 805 (2008) 190-206
arXiv:0807:3066 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: General class of wormhole geometries in conformal Weyl gravity
Authors: Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) 175006
arXiv:0801.4401 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Plane symmetric thin-shell wormholes: solutions and stability
Authors: José P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 78 (2008) 044030
arXiv:0806.4459 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Dark matter as a geometric effect in f(R) gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Astroparticle Physics 29 (2008) 386-392
arXiv:0709.0046 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: A new two-sphere singularity in general relativity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D 17 (2008) 897-910
gr-qc/0703024 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Generalized virial theorem in f(R) gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 03 (2008) 024
arXiv:0710.0966 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Wormhole geometries with conformal motions
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) 075016

arXiv:0711.2424 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Interior of a Schwarzschild black hole revisited
Authors: Rosa Doran, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Foundations of Physics 38 (2008) 160-187
gr-qc/0609042 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Solar system tests of brane world models
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) 045015
arXiv:0801.1375 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Conformally symmetric traversable wormholes
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 76 (2007) 084014
arXiv:0708.1537 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Stability of the Einstein static universe in f(R) gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D 76 (2007) 084005
arXiv:0706.1663 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Extra force in f(R) modified theories of gravity
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D75 (2007) 104016
arXiv:0704.1733 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Self sustained phantom wormholes in semi-classical gravity
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) 2401-2413
gr-qc/0701020 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: A general class of braneworld wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D75 (2007) 064027
gr-qc/0701133 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Gravastars supported by nonlinear electrodynamics
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Aaron V. B. Arellano
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) 1069-1088
gr-qc/0611083 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Van der Waals quintessence stars
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D75 (2007) 024023
gr-qc/0610118 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Non-existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics
Authors: Aaron V. B. Arellano, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 7229-7244
gr-qc/0604095 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Evolving wormhole geometries within nonlinear electrodynamics
Authors: Aaron V. B. Arellano, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 5811-5824
gr-qc/0608003 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Chaplygin traversable wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D73 (2006) 064028
gr-qc/0511003 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Stable dark energy stars
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 1525-1541
gr-qc/0508115 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Stability analysis of dynamic thin shells
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 4869-4885
gr-qc/0507063 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Energy conditions, traversable wormholes and dust shells
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: General Relativity and Gravitation 37 (2005) 2023-2038
gr-qc/0410087 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Stability of phantom wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D71 (2005) 124022
gr-qc/0506001 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Phantom energy traversable wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D71 (2005) 084011
gr-qc/0502099 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Fundamental limitations on "warp drive" spacetimes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 5871-5892
Comments: Nominated as one of the 2004 and 2005 Highlights of Class.Quant.Gravity
gr-qc/0406083 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Surface stresses on a thin shell surrounding a traversable wormhole
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 4811-4832
gr-qc/0409018 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Plane symmetric traversable wormholes in an anti-de Sitter background
Authors: José P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Physical Review D69 (2004) 104007
gr-qc/0402099 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Linearized stability analysis of thin-shell wormholes with a cosmological constant
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 391-404
gr-qc/0311002 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Morris-Thorne wormholes with a cosmological constant
Authors: Jose' P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Sergio Quinet de Oliveira
Journal-ref: Physical Review D68 (2003) 064004
gr-qc/0302049 [abs, ps, pdf]

C: Articles in Research Journals - In Press

D: Articles in Research Journals - Under Review

Title: Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA
Authors: E. Barausse, E. Berti, T. Hertog, S. Hughes, P. Jetzer, P. Pani, T. Sotiriou, N. Tamanini, H. Witek, K. Yagi, N. Yunes, et al (LISA Fundamental Physics working group)
Journal-ref: submitted
arXiv:2001.09793 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmographic analysis of redshift drift
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jose Pedro Mimoso, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: submitted
arXiv:2001.11964 [pdf, ps]

E: Book Sections (and selected conference proceedings)

Title: Introduction: Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions
F. S. N. Lobo.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1 1
Journal-ref: Fundam. Theor. Phys. 189, 1 (2017).
Title: Wormhole Basics
F. S. N. Lobo.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1 2
Journal-ref: Fundam. Theor. Phys. 189, 11 (2017).
Title: Astrophysical Signatures of Thin Accretion Disks in Wormhole Spacetimes"
T. Harko, Z. Kovcs and F. S. N. Lobo.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1 4
Journal-ref: Fundam. Theor. Phys. 189, 63 (2017).
Title: Self-Sustained Traversable Wormholes"
R. Garattini and F. S. N. Lobo.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1 6
Journal-ref: Fundam. Theor. Phys. 189, 111 (2017).
Title: Warp Drive Basics"
M. Alcubierre and F. S. N. Lobo.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1 11
Journal-ref: Fundam. Theor. Phys. 189, 257 (2017).
Title: A Review on the Cosmology of the de Sitter Horndeski Models
Authors: Nelson J. Nunes, Prado Martin-Moruno, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Universe 2017, 3(2), 33
Comments: Proceedings accepted for publication in "Universe", Special Issue "Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology" for the VARCOSMOFUN16 in Szczecin, Poland, 12-17 September, 2016
arXiv:1704.05376 [pdf]
Title: From the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge to the modern renaissance of traversable wormholes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: Rapporteur contribution to the proceedings of the "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on a rapporteur talk delivered at the AT3 parallel session
arXiv:1604.02082 [pdf, ps]
Title: A novel approach to thin-shell wormholes and applications
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Prado Martín-Moruno, Nadiezhda Montelongo-García, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of the "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on an invited talk delivered at the BH4-"Gravitational fields with sources: From compact objects to black holes" parallel session
arXiv:1512.08474 [pdf, ps]
Title: Novel stability approach of thin-shell gravastars
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Prado Martín-Moruno, Nadiezhda Montelongo-García, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of the "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on an invited talk delivered at the BS1-"Black Hole foils, Boson stars" parallel session
arXiv:1512.07659 [pdf, ps]
Title: Cosmology of the de Sitter Horndeski models
Authors: Prado Martin-Moruno, Nelson J. Nunes, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on a talk delivered at the DE1 parallel session
arXiv:1511.00655 [pdf]
Title: Accelerating Horndeski cosmologies screening the vacuum energy
Authors: Prado Martin-Moruno, Nelson J. Nunes, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on a talk delivered at the AT1 parallel session
arXiv:1509.06159 [pdf, ps]
Title: Thick brane solitons breaking $Z_2$ symmetry
Authors: Marzieh Peyravi, Nematollah Riazi, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of the "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on a talk delivered at the AT2-Alternative Theories parallel session
arXiv:1509.04577 [pdf, ps]
Title: Irreversible matter creation processes through a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Tiberiu Harko, José P. Mimoso, Diego Pavón
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: contribution to the proceedings of the "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on an invited talk delivered at the AT1-Alternative Theories parallel session
arXiv:1508.03069 [pdf, ps]
Title: Extended Theories of Gravity with Generalized Energy Conditions
Authors: José P. Mimoso, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Salvatore Capozziello
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: Submitted to the Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting - ERE2014 "Amost 100 years after Einstein revolution", to appear in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series
arXiv:1412.6670 [pdf, ps]
Title: Beyond Einstein's General Relativity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings.
Comments: Proceedings of a plenary talk delivered at "The Spanish Relativity Meeting 2014" (ERE2014), hosted by the University of Valencia, 1st-5th of September, 2014
arXiv:1412.0867 [pdf, ps]
Title: Quadratic Palatini gravity and stable black hole remnants
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 2013 Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics (KSM2013), held in FIAS, Frankfurt (Germany), 22-26 July 2013, Springer
arXiv:1311.6487 [pdf, ps]
Title: Hybrid f(R) theories, local constraints, and cosmic speedup
Authors: S. Capozziello, T. Harko, T. S. Koivisto, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012
arXiv:1301.2209 [pdf, ps]
Title: Self-sustained traversable wormholes in modified gravity theories
Authors: Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012
arXiv:1301.0221 [pdf, ps]
Title: Time machines and traversable wormholes in modified theories of gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: EPJ Web Conf. 58 (2013) 01006
Comments: Contribution to the proceedings of The Time Machine Factory, Turin, Italy, 14-20 October, 2012
arXiv:1212.1006 [pdf, ps]
Title: Traversable wormholes supported by dark gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012
arXiv:1211.1170 [pdf, ps]
Title: Linearised stability analysis of generic thin shells
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Prado Martin-Moruno, Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012
arXiv:1211.0605 [pdf, ps]
Title: Extended f(R,L_m) theories of gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Tiberiu Harko
Journal-ref: Proceedings
Comments: Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012
arXiv:1211.0426 [pdf, ps]
Title: Wormhole geometries in modified gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 1458 (2011) 447-450.
Comments: Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2011), Madrid, Spain, 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2011
arXiv:1112.6333 [pdf, ps]
Title: The variation of G in a negatively curved space-time
Authors: José P. Mimoso, Francisco S. N. Lobo,
Journal-ref: Prepared for the proceedings of the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM) 2010; based on a talk given by JPM in the "From Varying Couplings to Fundamental Physics" Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep 2010
arXiv:1101.4405 [pdf, ps]
Title: f(G) modified gravity and the energy conditions
Authors: Nadiezhda Montelongo García, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, José P. Mimoso
Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 314 (2011) 012056
Comments: Prepared for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2010), Granada, Spain, 6-10 Sep 2010
arXiv:1012.0953 [pdf, ps]
Title: Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 314 (2011) 012060
Comments: Prepared for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2010), Granada, Spain, 6-10 Sep 2010
arXiv:1011.6176 [pdf, ps]
Title: Closed timelike curves and causality violation
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity: Theory, Analysis and Applications, chap.6 , (2008), Nova Sci. Pub (Invited chapter)
arXiv:1008.1127 [pdf, ps]
Title: An anti-Schwarzshild solution: wormholes and scalar-tensor solutions
Authors: José P. Mimoso, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 229 (2010) 012078
Comments: Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting-ERE2009
arXiv:1001.2643 [pdf, ps]
Title: Stability of the Einstein static universe in modified theories of gravity
Authors: Christian G. Boehmer, Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Sanjeev S. Seahra
Journal-ref: to appear
Comments: The Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (2012), chap 379, p. 1977-1979
arXiv:1001.2643 [pdf, ps]
Title: Non-minimal curvature-matter couplings in modified gravity
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jorge Páramos
Journal-ref: Invited contribution to the anniversary volume "The Problems of Modern Cosmology", on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Prof. S. D. Odintsov. Editor: Prof. P. M. Lavrov, Tomsk State Pedagogical University
arXiv:0811.2876v1 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: The dark side of gravity: Modified theories of gravity
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Dark Energy-Current Advances and Ideas, 173-204 (2009), Research Signpost, ISBN 978-81-308-0341-8
arXiv:0807.1640 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Exotic solutions in General Relativity: Traversable wormholes and 'warp drive' spacetimes
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity Research, 1-78, (2008), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN 978-1-60456-366-5
arXiv:0710.4474 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Nature of time and causality in Physics
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Psychology of Time, 395-422, (2008), Emerald, ISBN 978-0-08046-977-5
arXiv:0710.0428 [gr-qc] [ps, pdf]
Title: Dynamic wormhole spacetimes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics
Authors: Aaron V. B. Arellano, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings of 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jul 2006.
Published in "Berlin 2006, Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity" 2199-2201

arXiv:gr-qc/0612083 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Stable dark energy stars: An alternative to black holes?
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings of 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jul 2006.
Published in "Berlin 2006, Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity" 1520-1522

arXiv:gr-qc/0612030 [pdf, ps]
Title: Traversable wormholes supported by cosmic accelerated expanding equations of state
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: Proceedings of 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jul 2006.
Published in "Berlin 2006, Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity" 2193-2195

arXiv:gr-qc/0611150 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Stable phantom energy traversable wormhole models
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 861 (2006) 936-943
gr-qc/0603091 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo, Matt Visser
Journal-ref: Beyond General Relativity. Edited by: N. Alonso-Alberca, E. Alvarez, T. Ortin, M.A. Vazquez-Mozo. 2007. 214pp. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Press, Madrid (Spain). Collecion de Estudios, volume 119. 978-84-8344-059-79.
gr-qc/0412065 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality
Authors: Francisco Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: NATO Science Series II 95 (2003) 289-296
gr-qc/0206078 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Weak energy condition violation and superluminal travel
Authors: Francisco Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Lecture Notes in Physics 617 (2003) 277-291
gr-qc/0204038 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Constraints on Wormhole Geometries
Authors: Francisco Lobo, Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Proceedings of Ninth Marcel Grossman Conference, Rome, 2000, edited by Vahe G. Gurzadyan, Robert Jantzen and Remo Rufini (World Scientific, Singapore, 2002), 855.

F: Pedagogical articles

Title: Viagens Superluminais
Authors: Francisco Lobo
Journal-ref: Revista Macrocosmo Ano I, Edicao no. 3, Fevereiro de 2004, pag. 29-32, no site: http://revistamacrocosmo.com/ (2004) [html]
Title: Tuneis no Espaco-Tempo e Viagens Interestelares Hiper-Rapidas
Authors: Francisco Lobo
Journal-ref: Tema do mes de Setembro de 2002 no NUCLIO (Nucleo Interactivo de Astronomia), Portal do Astronomo, no site: http://www.portaldoastronomo.org/ [html]
Title: Wormholes e Viagens Interestelares Rapidas no Hiperespaco
Authors: Francisco Lobo
Journal-ref: O Observatorio, Vol. 6, no. 8, 2000 [html]
Title: Wormholes: Tuneis no Espaco-Tempo
Authors: Francisco Lobo e Paulo Crawford
Journal-ref: Gazeta de Fisica 22 4-10 (1999) [pdf]

G: Presentations in Conferences (and selected recent seminars)

Title: From the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge to the modern renaissance of traversable wormholes
Comments: Seminar delivered at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 17 December 2019
Title: Generalized curvature-matter couplings in modified gravity
Comments: Talk delivered at the 10th Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
(ACGRG10) Victoria University ofWellington, Wellington, New Zealand 10-14 December 2019
Title: Black Holes: New Horizons
Comments: Invited Public lecture delivered at Kazan Federal University, Russia 2 December 2019
Title: Extensions of f(R) Gravity: Curvature-Matter Couplings and Hybrid Metric-Palatini Theory
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, Russia 3 December 2019.
Title: Wormholes, Warp Drives and Interstellar Travel
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the Foundations of Interstellar Studies Workshop 2019 Charfield,
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, 27-30 June 2019.
Title: Wormholes, warp drives and energy conditions
Comments: Plenary talk delivered at the workshop, "Travelling through Pedro's universes: from Spectroscopy to Cosmology", in honour of Prof. Pedro Gonzalez-Diaz, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, December 3-5, 2018.
Comments: I chaired the AT3 parallel session "Alternative Theories" at the 14th Marcel Grossmann
Meeting, at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Rome, July 1-7, 2018.
Title: Update on wormholes and energy conditions
Comments: Rapporteur talk delivered at the AT3 parallel session, The 15th Marcel Grossmann
Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome, July 1-7,2018.
Title: Novel couplings between nonmetricity and matter
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the AT1 parallel session, "The 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 1-7, 2018.
Title: Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Comments: Invited plenary lecture delivered at the 3rd International Winter School-Seminar on Gravity,
Astrophysics and Cosmology Petrov School 2017", "Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University", Kazan, Russia, 27th November-2nd December 2017.
Title: Generalized curvature-matter couplings in modified gravity
Comments: Invited plenary lecture delivered at the 3rd International Winter School-Seminar on Gravity, Astrophysics and Cosmology "Petrov School 2017", "Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University", Kazan, Russia, 27th November-2nd December 2017.
Title: Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity: astrophysical and cosmological phenomenology
Comments: Plenary talk delivered at the Connections in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space and Planetary
Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29-30th May 2017.
Title: Wormholes, warp drives and energy conditions
Comments: Talk delivered at the "12th Iberian Cosmology Meeting (IberiCOS 2017)", in Valencia, Spain, 10-12th April 2017
Title: Wormholes, warp drives and energy conditions
Comments: Talk delivered at the "Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Beira Interior" meeting, in Covilha, Portugal, 10-11th February 2017
Title: Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Comments: Plenary talk delivered at the "Beyond Concordance Model II 2016" conference, in Cape Town, South Africa, 28th November--2nd December 2016.
Title: A hybrid gravitational Cantata: astrophysical and cosmological applications
Comments: Talk delivered at the Dark Matter 2016: From the smallest to the largest scales in Santander, Spain, June 27th-July 1st 2016.
Title: Gravitational, lensing, and stability properties of Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter halos
Comments: Talk delivered at the Dark Matter 2016: From the smallest to the largest scales in Santander, Spain, June 27th-July 1st 2016.
Title: Beyond Einstein's General Relativity: 100 years-on
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the GR 100 years in Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, December 19-20, 2015.
Title: Beyond Einstein's General Relativity: 100 years-on
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the 100 anos de Relatividade Geral. Porto 2015, University of Porto, Porto, November 19-20, 2015.
Title: From the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge to the modern renaissance of traversable wormholes
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the "The Time Machine Factory" [Unspeakable and Speakable] on Time Travel in Turim, Aula Magna, Palazzo del Rettorato - Universita di Torino, Turim, July 25-28, 2015.
Title: Novel stability approach of thin-shell gravastars
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the BS1-2-Boson Stars parallel session, The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015.
Title: A novel approach to thin-shell wormholes and applications
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the BH4-Black Holes: Theory parallel session, The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015.
Title: From the Einstein-Rosen bridge to the modern renaissance of traversable wormholes
Comments: Rapporteur talk delivered at the AT3-Alternative Theories parallel session, The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015.
Title: Thick brane solitons breaking $Z_2$ symmetry
Comments: Talk delivered at the AT2-Alternative Theories parallel session, The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015.
Title: Irreversible matter creation processes through a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the AT1-Alternative Theories parallel session, The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015.
Title: From the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge and geons to the modern renaissance of space-time tunnels
Comments: Seminar delivered at the Gr@v, 11th March 2015, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Title: Gravitational induced particle production through a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the "First Meeting on Cosmology and Gravitation at Serra da Estrela", held in Covilhã, Portugal, at the University of Beira Interior, 20th-21st of February 2015.
Title: Extending Einstein's General Relativity
Comments: Talk delivered at the Dark Side of the Universe, held in Cape Town, South Africa, at the University of Cape Town, 17th-21st of November 2014.
Title: From the Einstein-Rosen bridge and geons to the modern renaissance of space-time tunnels
Comments: Seminar delivered at the CENTRA, 30th October 2014, Instituto Superior Tecnico, (Lisbon, Portugal).
Title: Phenomenological aspects of modified gravity
Comments: Invited talk delivered at "Multiple Messengers and Challenges in Astroparticle Physics", hosted by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (Center for Advanced Studies) of L’Aquila (Italy), 6th-17th October, 2014.
Title: Beyond Einstein's General Relativity
Comments: Plenary talk delivered at "The Spanish Relativity Meeting 2014" (ERE2014), hosted by the University of Valencia, 1st-5th of September, 2014.
Title: Dark gravity and cosmic acceleration
Comments: Seminar delivered at the Centro de Física do Porto, 27th June 2014, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, (Porto, Portugal).
Title: The equivalence principle and modified gravitation theory
Comments: Talk delivered at the IX Iberian Cosmology Meeting, held in Aveiro, Portugal, at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro, 28th-30th of April 2014.
Title: Meeting on the horizon-throat: From the Einstein-Rosen bridge and geons to the modern renaissance of space-time tunnels
Comments: Plenary talk delivered at the 1st "Meeting on the Horizon", held at the Ponticia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, 10th-14th March, 2014.
Title: Geons, Spacetime Tunnels and Time travel
Comments: Seminar delivered at the CAAUL Seminars, 4th November 2013, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, (Lisbon, Portugal).
Title: Foundations of (modified) gravitation theory
Comments: Talk delivered at the Dark Side of the Universe 2013, IX International Workshop, 14th-17th October 2013, SISSA (Trieste, Italy).
Title: Extended Theories of Gravity II
Comments: Invited lecture delivered (18th September) at the Modified Gravity Theories: Beyond Einstein's Legacy workshop, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 16-18 September, 2013.
Title: Extended Theories of Gravity and the Acceleration of the Universe
Comments: Invited lecture delivered (16th September) at the Modified Gravity Theories: Beyond Einstein's Legacy workshop, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 16-18 September, 2013.
Title: Extended theories of gravity and the late-time cosmic acceleration
Comments: Keynote talk delivered at the XXIII Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica 2013 (XXIII ENAA), Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 18-19 July, 2013.
Title: Traversable wormholes in modified theories of gravity
Comments: Talk delivered at The Time Machine Factory, Turin, Italy, 14-20 October, 2012.
Title: Extended f(R,Lm) theories of gravity
Comments: Talk delivered at The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012.
Title: Traversable wormholes supported by dark gravity
Comments: Talk delivered at The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012.
Title: Linearized stability analysis of generic thin-shells
Comments: Talk delivered at The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012.
Title: Self Sustained Traversable Wormholes in Modified Gravity Theories
Comments: Talk delivered at The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1-7 July, 2012.
Title: Wormhole geometries in modified theories of gravity
Comments: Seminar delivered at the The University of Hong Kong, 23th February 2012, (Hong Kong, China)
Title: Wormhole geometries in modified gravity
Comments: talk delivered at the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2011), Madrid, Spain, 29 Aug-2 Sep 2011
arXiv:1112.6333 [pdf, ps]
Title: Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark gravity
Comments: Seminar delivered at the The University of the Witwatersrand, 14th March 2011, (Johannesburg, South Africa).
Title: Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark gravity
Comments: Seminar delivered at the The University of Hong Kong, 24th February 2011, (Hong Kong, China).
Title: f(G) modified gravity and the energy conditions
Comments: talk delivered at the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2010), Granada, Spain, 6-10 Sep 2010
arXiv:1012.0953 [pdf, ps]
Title: Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark gravity
Comments: talk delivered at the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2010), Granada, Spain, 6-10 Sep 2010
arXiv:1011.6176 [pdf, ps]
Title: Traversable wormholes, gravastars, warp drives and closed timelike curves
Comments: Seminar delivered at the Cosmology CAAUL Seminars, 25th May 2010, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, (Lisbon, Portugal).
Title: Late-time cosmic acceleration and modified gravity
Comments: Seminar delivered at the Cosmology CAAUL Seminars, 18th May 2010, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, (Lisbon, Portugal).
Title: Solar System tests of Hořava-Lifshitz black holes
Comments: talk presented at the II Workshop on Black Holes, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, 21-22 December 2009
arXiv:1001.3517 [gr-qc] [pdf, ps]
Title: The dark side of gravity
Comments: Seminar delivered at CINVESTAV, 13th August 2008, (Mexico City, Mexico).
Title: The dark side of gravity
Comments: 3rd Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-7 March, 2008.
Title: Stable dark energy star models (poster)
Comments: Origins of Dark Energy Conference, Origins Institute at McMaster University, Ontario, 14-17 May, 2007.
Title: Traversable wormholes supported by cosmic accelerated expanding equations of state
Comments: Invited talk delivered at The Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Freie University, Berlin, 23-29 July, 2006.
gr-qc/0611150 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Stable dark energy stars: An alternative to black holes?
Comments: Invited talk delivered at The Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Freie University, Berlin, 23-29 July, 2006.
gr-qc/0612030 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Linearized stability analysis of dynamic thin shells
Comments: Física 2005, "Física para o Século XXI", Centro de Congressos e Exposições da Alfândega do Porto, 1-3 Dezembro 2005.
Title: Stable phantom energy traversable wormhole models
Comments: Talk delivered at the Albert Einstein Century International Conference, Paris, 18-22 July 2005.
gr-qc/0603091 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions
Comments: Talk delivered at the Spanish Relativity Meeting 2004 (ERE 2004): Beyond General Relativity, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, 23-25 Sep. 2004.
gr-qc/0412065 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Thin shells around traversable wormholes
Comments: Talk delivered at the APCTP Winter School and Workshop: Quantum Gravity, Black Holes and Wormholes, POSTECH, Pohang School of Environmental Engineering, South Korea, 11-14 Dec. 2003
gr-qc/0401083 [abs, ps, pdf]
Title: Linearized stability in thin-shell wormholes
Comments: XIV International Congress of Mathematical Physics, General Relativity Session, Universidade de Lisboa, 28 July – 2 August 2003.
Title: Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality
Comments: Invited talk delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop. The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception, Astronomic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, 21-24 May 2002.
Title: Weak Energy Condition Violation and Superluminal Travel
Comments: Spanish Relativity Meeting 2001 (ERE 2001), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid e Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 18-21 Sep. 2001.
Title: Viagens Interstelares Hiper-rápidas em Relatividade Geral (pdf)
Comments: XI Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, 26/27 July 2001.
Title: Constraints on Wormhole geometries
Comments: The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2-8 July, 2000.
Title: Wormhole evolution in a Homogeneous Cosmological Model
Comments: Relativistic Cosmology: A Symposium in Honour of George Ellis, University of Cape Town, 1-5 Feb. 1999.

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