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Milgrom's Law and Lambda's Shadow: How Massive Gravity Connects Galactic and Cosmic Dynamics

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-09-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Massive gravity provides a natural solution for the dark energy problem of cosmology and is also a candidate for resolving the dark matter problem. I demonstrate that, assuming reasonable scaling relations, massive gravity can provide for Milgrom's law of gravity (or "modified Newtonian dynamics") which is known to remove the need for particle dark matter from galactic dynamics. Milgrom's law comes with a characteristic acceleration, Milgrom's constant, which is observationally constrained to a01.1×1010a_0\approx1.1\times10^{-10} m/s2^2. In the derivation presented here, this constant arises naturally from the cosmologically required mass of gravitons like a0cΛcH03ΩΛa_0\propto c\sqrt{\Lambda}\propto c H_0\sqrt{3\Omega_{\Lambda}}, with Λ\Lambda, H0H_0, and ΩΛ\Omega_{\Lambda} being the cosmological constant, the Hubble constant, and the third cosmological parameter, respectively. My derivation suggests that massive gravity could be the mechanism behind both, dark matter and dark energy.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00730,
  title  = {Milgrom's Law and Lambda's Shadow: How Massive Gravity Connects Galactic and Cosmic Dynamics},
  author = {Sascha Trippe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00730},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages. To appear in JKAS (submitted: 2015 March 11; accepted: 2015 June 2)

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