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Weak-Field Spherically Symmetric Solutions in $f(T)$ gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-25 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We study weak-field solutions having spherical symmetry in f(T)f(T) gravity; to this end, we solve the field equations for a non diagonal tetrad, starting from Lagrangian in the form f(T)=T+αTnf(T)=T+\alpha T^{n}, where α\alpha is a small constant, parameterizing the departure of the theory from GR. We show that the classical spherically symmetric solutions of GR, i.e. the Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-de Sitter solutions, are perturbed by terms in the form r22n\propto r^{2-2n} and discuss the impact of these perturbations in observational tests.

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@article{arxiv.1501.02198,
  title  = {Weak-Field Spherically Symmetric Solutions in $f(T)$ gravity},
  author = {Matteo Luca Ruggiero and Ninfa Radicella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02198},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTeX; revised to match the version accepted for publication in Physical Review D