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Nonlocal metric formulations of MOND with sufficient lensing

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-12-30 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We demonstrate how to construct purely metric modifications of gravity which agree with general relativity in the weak field regime appropriate to the solar system, but which possess an ultra-weak field regime when the gravitational acceleration becomes comparable to a01010m/s2a_0 \sim 10^{-10} {\rm m/s}^2. In this ultra-weak field regime, the models reproduce the MOND force without dark matter and also give enough gravitational lensing to be consistent with existing data. Our models are nonlocal and might conceivably derive from quantum corrections to the effective field equations.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4984,
  title  = {Nonlocal metric formulations of MOND with sufficient lensing},
  author = {Cedric Deffayet and Gilles Esposito-Farese and Richard P. Woodard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4984},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

18 pages, uses Revtex4, revised for publication