A nonlocal metric formulation of MOND

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/321zbMATH Open1038.83053arXivastro-ph/0302030OpenAlexW3098126103WikidataQ60154342 ScholiaQ60154342MaRDI QIDQ4457632FDOQ4457632

M. E. Soussa, R. P. Woodward

Publication date: 25 March 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a class of nonlocal, but causal, covariant and conserved field equations for the metric. Although nonlocal, these equations do not seem to possess extra graviton solutions in weak field perturbation theory. Indeed, the equations reduce to those of general relativity when the Ricci scalar vanishes throughout spacetime. When a static matter source is present we show how these equations can be adjusted to reproduce Milgrom's Modified Newtonian Dynamics in the weak field regime, while reducing to general relativity for strong fields. We compute the angular deflection of light in the weak field regime and demonstrate that it is the same as for general relativity, resulting in far too little lensing if no dark matter is present. We also study the field equations for a general Robertson-Walker geometry. An interesting feature of our equations is that they become conformally invariant in the MOND limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302030

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zbMATH Keywords

Robertson-Walker geometryweak field regimeangular deflection of lightMilgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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