A scalar field inducing a non-metrical contribution to gravitational acceleration and a compatible add-on to light deflection

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02693-ZzbMATH Open1443.83052arXiv1906.04989OpenAlexW2971709513MaRDI QIDQ776768FDOQ776768

Authors: Erhard Scholz 

Publication date: 13 July 2020

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A scalar field model for explaining the anomalous acceleration and light deflection at galactic and cluster scales, without further dark matter, is presented. It is formulated in a scale covariant scalar tensor theory of gravity in the framework of integrable Weyl geometry and presupposes two different phases for the scalar field, like the superfluid approach of Berezhiani/Khoury. In low acceleration regimes of static gravitational fields (in the Einstein frame) with accordingly low values of the scalar field gradient, the scalar field Lagrangian combines a cubic kinetic term similar to the ``a-quadratic Lagrangian used in the first covariant generalization of MOND (RAQUAL) (Bekenstein/Milgrom:1984) and a second order derivative term introduced by Novello et al. in the context of a Weyl geometric approach to cosmology (Novello/Oliveira_et al:1993, Oliveira/Salim/Sautu:1997). In varying with regard to $phi$ the latter is variationally equivalent to a first order expression. The scalar field equation thus remains of order two. In the Einstein frame it assumes the form of a covariant generalization of the Milgrom equation known from the classical MOND approach. It implies a corresponding ``non-metrical contribution to the acceleration of free fall trajectories. The second order derivative term of the Lagrangian leads to a non-negligible contribution to the energy momentum tensor and an {em add-on to the light deflection potential} in beautiful agreement with the dynamics of low velocity trajectories. -- In higher sectional curvature regions, respectively for higher accelerations in static fields, the scalar field Lagrangian consists of a Jordan-Brans-Dicke term with sufficiently high value of the JBD-constant to satisfy empirical constraints. Here the dynamics agrees effectively with the one of Einstein gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04989

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zbMATH Keywords

scale covariancescalar fieldlight deflectionComa clustergalaxy rotation curvesintegrable Weyl geometryJordan-Brans-Dicke termRAQUALrelativistic MOND

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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