A Relativistic MOND
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 framework in which , leaving a healthy repulsive interaction whose charge is the square-root mass label. Gravity itself arises from the 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 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 (the de Sitter group). The single MOND acceleration scale is set by a de Sitter radius selected dynamically in the IR, with 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.
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