English

A Relativistic MOND

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-01-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present a minimal relativistic completion of MOND in which (i) General Relativity is recovered exactly in the high-acceleration regime, while (ii) the Bekenstein--Milgrom (AQUAL) equation emerges in the low-acceleration regime, without introducing additional propagating fields beyond those already present in a right-handed gauge sector. The construction is motivated by an E6×E6E_6\times E_6 framework in which SU(3)RSU(2)R×U(1)YU(1)demSU(3)_R\rightarrow SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{Y'}\rightarrow U(1)_{\rm dem}, leaving a healthy repulsive U(1)demU(1)_{\rm dem} interaction whose charge is the square-root mass label. Gravity itself arises from the SU(2)RSU(2)_R connection via a Plebanski/MacDowell--Mansouri mechanism, yielding an emergent tetrad and the Einstein--Hilbert action. MOND is implemented by an infrared (IR) metric deformation ΔSIR[g]\Delta S_{\rm IR}[g] that is UV-vanishing (so GR is recovered) while its deep-MOND/static limit is fixed by a symmetry principle: in three spatial dimensions, the deep-MOND action is conformally invariant with a 10-parameter group isomorphic to SO(4,1)SO(4,1) (the de Sitter group). The single MOND acceleration scale is set by a de Sitter radius selected dynamically in the IR, a0=c2/(ξdS)a_0=c^2/(\xi\,\ell_{\rm dS}) with ξ=O(1)\xi={ O}(1) fixed by matching to the static limit. MOND resides in perturbations and quasistatic systems; the homogeneous FRW background is controlled by the IR vacuum kinematics rather than an ad hoc cosmological constant.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.04290,
  title  = {A Relativistic MOND},
  author = {Tejinder P. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04290},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

4 pages; prepared for the proceedings of the 22nd Lomonosov conference, Moscow, August 21-27, 2025

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