English

Time evolution of the local gravitational parameters and gravitational wave polarizations in a relativistic MOND theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-03-16 v2

Abstract

The recently proposed Skordis-Z\l{}o\'{s}nik theory is the first relativistic MOND theory that can recover the success of the standard Λ\LambdaCDM model at matching observations of the cosmic microwave background. This paper aims to revisit the Newtonian and MOND approximations and the gravitational wave analysis of the theory. For the local gravitational parameters, we show that one could obtain both time-varying effective Newtonian gravitational \textit{constant} GNG_\textrm{N} and time-varying characteristic MOND acceleration scale aMONDa_\textrm{MOND}, by relaxing the static assumption extensively adopted in the literature. Specially, we successfully demonstrate how to reproduce the redshift dependence of aMONDa_\textrm{MOND} observed in the \textit{Magneticum} cold dark matter simulations. For the gravitational waves, we show that there are only two tensor polarizations, and reconfirm that its speed is equal to the speed of light.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.13304,
  title  = {Time evolution of the local gravitational parameters and gravitational wave polarizations in a relativistic MOND theory},
  author = {Shuxun Tian and Shaoqi Hou and Shuo Cao and Zong-Hong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13304},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures, published in Phys. Rev. D. This version corrects the footnote citation numbers [48,49,63] in the main text. The PRD published version also misquotes the relevant citation numbers