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Born reciprocity and the 1/r potential

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-12-18 v1 Astrophysics Classical Physics

Abstract

Many structures in nature are invariant under the transformation (p,r)->(br,-p/b), where b is some scale factor. Born's reciprocity hypothesis affirms that this invariance extends to the entire Hamiltonian and equations of motion. We investigate this idea for atomic physics and galactic motion, where one is basically dealing with a 1/r potential and the observations are very accurate, so as to determine the scale b=mΩb = m\Omega. We find that an Ω1.5×1015\Omega \sim 1.5\times 10^{-15} Hz has essentially no effect on atomic physics but might possibly offer an explanation for galactic rotation, without invoking dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.0709.0776,
  title  = {Born reciprocity and the 1/r potential},
  author = {Robert Delbourgo and Darrel Lashmar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0776},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, with 4 figures, Latex, requires epsf.tex and iop style files

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