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Gravitational Potential and Nonrelativistic Lagrangian in Modified Gravity with Varying G

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-11-26 v1

Abstract

We have recently shown that the baryonic Tully-Fisher (BTF) and Faber-Jackson (BFJ) relations imply that the gravitational "constant" GG in the force law vary with acceleration aa as 1/a1/a. Here we derive the converse from first principles. First we obtain the gravitational potential for all accelerations and we formulate the Lagrangian for the central-force problem. Then action minimization implies the BTF/BFJ relations in the deep MOND limit as well as weak-field Weyl gravity in the Newtonian limit. The results show how we can properly formulate a nonrelativistic conformal theory of modified dynamics that reduces to MOND in its low-acceleration limit and to Weyl gravity in the opposite limit. An unavoidable conclusion is that a0a_0, the transitional acceleration in modified dynamics, does not have a cosmological origin and it may not even be constant among galaxies and galaxy clusters.

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@article{arxiv.1811.08920,
  title  = {Gravitational Potential and Nonrelativistic Lagrangian in Modified Gravity with Varying G},
  author = {Dimitris M. Christodoulou and Demosthenes Kazanas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08920},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To appear in MNRASL