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Static post-Newtonian equivalence of GR and gravity with a dynamical preferred frame

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A generally covariant extension of general relativity (GR) in which a dynamical unit timelike vector field is coupled to the metric is studied in the asymptotic weak field limit of spherically symmetric static solutions. The two post-Newtonian parameters known as the Eddington-Robertson-Schiff parameters are found to be identical to those in the case of pure GR, except for some non-generic values of the coefficients in the Lagrangian.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310044,
  title  = {Static post-Newtonian equivalence of GR and gravity with a dynamical preferred frame},
  author = {Christopher Eling and Ted Jacobson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages; v.2: minor editing, signs corrected, version to appear in PRD; v. 3: signs corrected in eqn (3)