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Gravity lens critical test for gravity constants and dark sector

General Physics 2018-11-07 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The recent study of the strong gravitational lens ESO 325-G004 [1] leads to a new possibility for testing General Relativity and its extensions. Such gravity lens observational studies can be instrumental for establishing a limitation on the precision of testing General Relativity in the weak-field regime and on the two gravity constants (the Newtonian and cosmological ones) as described in [2]. Namely, we predict a critical value for the involved weak-field parameter \gamma_{cr}=0.998 (for M= 1.5 10^{11} M_{\odot} lens mass and r=2 kpc light impact distance), which remarkably does not depend on any hypothetical variable but is determined only by well measured quantities. If the critical parameter \gamma_{cr} will be established at future observations, this will mark the first discrepancy with General Relativity of conventional weak-field Newtonian limit, directly linked to the nature of dark sector of the Universe.

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@article{arxiv.1810.09846,
  title  = {Gravity lens critical test for gravity constants and dark sector},
  author = {V. G. Gurzadyan and A. Stepanian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09846},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

To appear in Eur Phys J C; 3 pages; minor revision

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