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Reply to Comment on "Dark matter as a Weyl geometric effect"

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-10-23 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a recent Comment on the paper "Dark matter as a Weyl geometric effect", by Burikham et al., Phys. Rev. D 107, 064008 (2023), posted on arxiv. org as eprint arXiv:2306.11926, it was claimed that the exact solution found in the above mentioned paper by Burikham et al. "is wrong". In this Reply to the Comment we present, in a clear and comprehensive way, a step by step derivation of the exact solution of the vacuum static spherically symmetric field equations of the Weyl geometric gravity theory, and we show that, contrary to the claims in arXiv:2306.11926, the obtained solution is correct, and it satisfies all the equations of motion of the basic theory. Hence, it can be considered as a viable alternative model for the explanation of the behavior of the galactic rotation curves, without invoking the presence of dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13423,
  title  = {Reply to Comment on "Dark matter as a Weyl geometric effect"},
  author = {Piyabut Burikham and Tiberiu Harko and Kulapant Pimsamarn and Shahab Shahidi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13423},
  year   = {2023}
}

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4 pages, no figures

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