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A cosmological test for general relativity

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The effect of spatial variations of the Newton constant on the cosmic microwave background is studied. Constraints on the strong equivalence principle violation at the recombination time are then obtained with the help of WMAP data and of the standard theory of big-bang nucleosynthesis.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509774,
  title  = {A cosmological test for general relativity},
  author = {Vincent Boucher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509774},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Cosmoparticle Physics "Cosmion-2004", 20-24 September 2004, Paris