de Sitter invariant special relativity and galaxy rotation curves
Abstract
Owing to the existence of an invariant length at the Planck scale, Einstein special relativity breaks down at that scale. A possible solution to this problem is arguably to replace the Poincar\'e invariant Einstein special relativity by a de Sitter invariant special relativity. In addition to reconciling Lorentz symmetry with the existence of an invariant length, such replacement produces concomitant changes in all relativistic theories, including general relativity, which becomes what we have called 'de Sitter modified general relativity'. In this paper, the Newtonian limit of this theory is used to study the circular velocity of stars around the galactic center. It is shown that the de Sitter modified Newtonian force---which includes corrections coming from the underlying local kinematics---could possibly explain the rotation curve of galaxies without the necessity of supposing the existence of a dark matter halo.
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@article{arxiv.1706.06443,
title = {de Sitter invariant special relativity and galaxy rotation curves},
author = {A. Araujo and D. F. Lopez and J. G. Pereira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06443},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure. V2: presentation changes aiming at clarifying the text, 13 pages, 1 figure; matches published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1704.02120