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Nonlocal Gravitomagnetism

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-20 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We briefly review the current status of nonlocal gravity (NLG), which is a classical nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation based on a certain analogy with the nonlocal electrodynamics of media. Nonlocal gravity thus involves integro-differential field equations and a causal constitutive kernel that should ultimately be determined from observational data. We consider the stationary gravitational field of an isolated rotating astronomical source in the linear approximation of nonlocal gravity. In this weak-field and slow-motion approximation of NLG, we describe the gravitomagnetic field associated with the rotating source and compare our results with gravitoelectromagnetism (GEM) of the standard general relativity theory. Moreover, we briefly study the energy-momentum content of the GEM field in nonlocal gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05431,
  title  = {Nonlocal Gravitomagnetism},
  author = {Bahram Mashhoon and Friedrich W. Hehl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05431},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages; v2: presentation improved, references added; v3: minor corrections

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