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Gravitational scalar field coupled directly to the Maxwell field and its effect to solar-system experiments

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The effect of the massless gravitational scalar field assumed to couple directly to the Maxwell field to the solar-system experiments is estimated. We start with discussing the theoretical significances of this coupling. Rather disappointingly, however, we find that the scalar-field parameters never affect the observation in the limit of the geometric optics, indicating a marked difference from the well-known contribution through the spacetime metric.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608508,
  title  = {Gravitational scalar field coupled directly to the Maxwell field and its effect to solar-system experiments},
  author = {Yasunori Fujii and Misao Sasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608508},
  year   = {2008}
}

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