Critique of the use of geodesics in astrophysics and cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC8140MaRDI QIDQ5872716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philip D. Mannheim

Publication date 4 January 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08556

zbMATH Keywords

eikonal approximationgeodesicsnormals to wavefronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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• Derivation of MOND from Hossenfelder–Verlinde gravity
• Images of nonsingular nonrotating black holes in conformal gravity

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