English

Solar System constraints on Renormalization Group extended General Relativity: The PPN and Laplace-Runge-Lenz analyses with the external potential effect

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-10-27 v2

Abstract

General Relativity extensions based on Renormalization Group effects are motivated by a known physical principle and constitute a class of extended gravity theories that have some unexplored unique aspects. In this work we develop in detail the Newtonian and post Newtonian limits of a realisation called Renormalization Group extended General Relativity (RGGR). Special attention is taken to the external potential effect, which constitutes a type of screening mechanism typical of RGGR. In the Solar System, RGGR depends on a single dimensionless parameter νˉ\bar \nu_\odot, and this parameter is such that for νˉ=0\bar \nu_\odot = 0 one fully recovers GR in the Solar System. Previously this parameter was constrained to be νˉ1021|\bar \nu_\odot| \lesssim 10^{-21}, without considering the external potential effect. Here we show that under a certain approximation RGGR can be cast in a form compatible with the Parametrised Post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, and we use both the PPN formalism and the Laplace-Runge-Lenz technique to put new bounds on νˉ\bar \nu_\odot, either considering or not the external potential effect. With the external potential effect the new bound reads νˉ1016|\bar \nu_\odot| \lesssim 10^{-16}. We discuss the possible consequences of this bound to the dark matter abundance in galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03613,
  title  = {Solar System constraints on Renormalization Group extended General Relativity: The PPN and Laplace-Runge-Lenz analyses with the external potential effect},
  author = {Davi C. Rodrigues and Sebastião Mauro and Álefe O. F. de Almeida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03613},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures. Added references and minor corrections in text. Version to appear in PRD