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Comment on "Problems with Mannheim's conformal gravity program"

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-04-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recently in Phys. Rev. D 88, 027504 (2013) Yoon has suggested that there may be problems for the non-relativistic limit of the conformal gravity theory. Here we show that Yoon's results only hold because of the assumption that gravitational sources can be treated the same way that they are treated in standard Newton-Einstein gravity. Since such an assumption violates the theory's underlying conformal invariance,Yoon's conclusions are invalidated.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02479,
  title  = {Comment on "Problems with Mannheim's conformal gravity program"},
  author = {Philip D. Mannheim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02479},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, revtex4. Final version, to appear as a Comment in Phys. Rev. D. Note change in title

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