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The Weyl gravity appears to be a very peculiar theory. The contribution of the Weyl linear parameter to the effective geodesic potential is opposite for massive and nonmassive geodesics. However, photon geodesics do not depend on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pireaux

We study the bending of light in the space-time of black holes in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity, recently proposed by Glavan and Lin \cite{Glavan}. Using Rindler-Ishak method, the effect of Gauss-Bonnet coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Mohaddese Heydari-Fard , Malihe Heydari-Fard , H. R. Sepangi

We show by direct calculation that the common Equivalence Principle explanation for why gravity must deflect light is quantitatively incorrect by a factor of three in Schwarzschild geometry. It is therefore possible, at least as a matter of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-08 Steven A. Balbus

We present a class of exact solutions of Weyl conformal gravity, which have an interpretation as topological black holes. Solutions with negative, zero or positive scalar curvature at infinity are found, the former generalizing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dietmar Klemm

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau

We study light propagation and gravitational lensing in scalar-tensor theories of gravity by using a static, axisymmetric exterior solution. The solution has asymptotic flatness properties and is reduced to Voorhees's one in the case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shin-ei Tsuneishi , Kazuya Watanabe , Tooru Tsuchida

Recent studies suggest that the cosmological constant affects the gravitational bending of photons although the orbital equation for light in Schwarzschild-de Sitter space time is free from cosmological constant. Here we argued that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Arunava Bhadra , Swarnadeep Biswas , Kabita Sarkar

The postulate of universal local Weyl scaling (conformal) symmetry modifies both general relativity and the Higgs scalar field model. Conformal gravity (CG) has recently been fitted to rotation data for 138 galaxies. The conformal Higgs…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 R. K. Nesbet

We determine the angle of deflection of light by the gravitational field inside and outside a spherical body with a homogeneous mass density. We show that the largest deflections, which can be measured by weak gravitational lensing, are in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Nikodem Popławski

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Ishihara, Suzuki, Ono, Kitamura, Asada, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 94}, 084015 (2016) ], we discuss a method of calculating the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Asahi Ishihara , Yusuke Suzuki , Toshiaki Ono , Hideki Asada

We discuss, without assuming asymptotic flatness, a gravitational lens for an observer and source that are within a finite distance from a lens object. The proposed lens equation is consistent with the deflection angle of light that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Keita Takizawa , Toshiaki Ono , Hideki Asada

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

The method of Rindler and Ishak enables one to study how light is bent in the vicinity of a non-rotating and spherically symmetric gravitational lens. This method mainly aims to investigate the role of cosmological constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

In this paper we review and build on the common methods used to analyze null geodesics in Schwarzschild de Sitter space. We present a general technique which allows finding measurable intersection angles of null trajectories analytically,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Dmitri Lebedev , Kayll Lake

We discuss a possible extension of calculations of the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime to a non-asymptotically flat case. We examine a relation between the bending angle of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Asahi Ishihara , Yusuke Suzuki , Toshiaki Ono , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada

By considering a deformation of the Schwarzschild metric in the presence of a minimal measurable length which still respects the equivalence principle, we study corrections to the standard general relativistic predictions for some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-22 Mohsen Khodadi , Kourosh Nozari , Anahita Hajizadeh

We propose the back reaction to the charged galactic wormhole spacetime based on Yoshiaki Sofue's exponential dark matter density profile to find exact solutions. The charges act as an additional component to the static wormhole, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Md Khalid Hossain , Farook Rahaman

Black hole (BH) solution in the conformal Weyl gravity is a generalization of the Schwarzschild spacetime which includes two additional constants appearing when integrating the third order differential equations for gravitational field. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 R. A. Konoplya

Light bending is one of the significant predictions of general relativity (GR) and it has been confirmed with great accuracy during the last one hundred years. In this paper, we semiclassically calculate the deflection angle for the photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Lei Feng

Earlier constructed a simple nonlocal de Sitter gravity model has a cosmological solution in a very good agreement with astronomical observations. In this paper, we continue the investigation of the nonlocal de Sitter model of gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 I. Dimitrijevic , B. Dragovich , Z. Rakic , J. Stankovic