Unraveling gravity beyond Einstein with extended test bodies

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.07.024MaRDI QIDQ2345291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Puetzfeld, Yuri N. Obukhov

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3933

zbMATH Keywords

equations of motionmultipolar methodsnonminimal couplingvariational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The motion of test bodies in gravity is tightly linked to the conservation laws. This well-known fact in the context of General Relativity is also valid for gravitational theories which go beyond Einstein's theory. Here we derive the equations of motion for test bodies for a very large class of gravitational theories with a general nonminimal coupling to matter. These equations form the basis for future systematic tests of alternative gravity theories. Our treatment is covariant and generalizes the classic Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon result for spinning (extended) test bodies. The equations of motion for structureless test bodies turn out to be surprisingly simple, despite the very general nature of the theories considered.

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