Equations of motion of test bodies in a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field (Q1059413)
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Equations of motion of test bodies in a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field (English)
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1983
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We consider a class of theories of gravity in which the motion of test particles is governed by the path equation (with respect to a general affine connection \(\Gamma)\). When we restrict attention to a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field, the path equation is characterized by three arbitrary functions of the gravitational field (as opposed to two in the case of metric theories where \(\Gamma =\{ \})\).
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nonmetric theories of gravity
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motion of test particles
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general affine connection
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spherically symmetric, static gravitational field
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