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We study Chern-Simons (CS) gravity in the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) framework through a weak-field solution of the modified field equations. We find that CS gravity possesses the same PPN parameters as general relativity, except…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

We use the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism to explore the weak field approximation of teleparallel gravity non-minimally coupling to a scalar field $\phi$, with arbitrary coupling function $\omega(\phi)$ and potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , You Wu , Hao Wei

We study the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit of higher-derivative-torsion Modified Teleparallel Gravity. We start from the covariant formulation of modified Teleparallel Gravity by restoring the spin connection of the theory. Then,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Giovanni Otalora , Lucila Kraiselburd , Susana Landau

The parameterised post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism has enabled stringent tests of static weak-field gravity in a theory-independent manner. Here we incorporate screening mechanisms of modified gravity theories into the framework by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Ryan McManus , Lucas Lombriser , Jorge Peñarrubia

Recently we discussed a multimetric gravity theory containing several copies of standard model matter each of which couples to its own metric tensor. This construction contained dark matter sectors interacting repulsively with the visible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-15 Manuel Hohmann , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We study theories of gravity including, in addition to the metric, several scalar fields in the gravitational sector. The particularity of this work is that we allow for direct couplings between these gravitating scalars and the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Osmin Lacombe , Shinji Mukohyama

C-theory provides a unified framework to study metric, metric-affine and more general theories of gravity. In the vacuum weak-field limit of these theories, the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters $\beta$ and $\gamma$ can differ…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tomi S. Koivisto

Einstein's theory of gravity has been extensively tested on solar system scales, and for isolated astrophysical systems, using the perturbative framework known as the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. This framework is designed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-24 Viraj A. A. Sanghai , Timothy Clifton

In this paper, we first propose a universal coupling between the gravity and matter in the framework of the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory of gravity with an extra U(1) symmetry for both the projectable and non-projectable cases. Then, using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Kai Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

In this article we analyze the post-Newtonian approximation of a generalization of the symmetric teleparallel gravity with the help of the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. This class of theories is based on a free function of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Kai Flathmann , Manuel Hohmann

The post-Newtonian (PN) perturbative framework has been successful in understanding the slow-motion, weak field limit of Einstein's theory of gravity on solar system scales, and for isolated astrophysical systems. The parameterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Viraj A. A. Sanghai

Some theories of gravity predict the existence of preferred-frame effects and violations of conservation of energy and momentum. General relativity predicts no such effects. In the parameterised post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Bell

We investigate the weak-field, post-Newtonian expansion to the solution of the field equations in Chern-Simons gravity with a perfect fluid source. In particular, we study the mapping of this solution to the parameterized post-Newtonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

The nonminimal coupling of the kinetic term to Einstein's tensor helps the implementation of inflationary models due to the gravitationally enhanced friction. We calculate the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

The Parameterised Post-Newtonian (PPN) approach is the default framework for performing precision tests of gravity in nearby astrophysical systems. In recent works we have extended this approach for cosmological applications, and in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Daniel B. Thomas , Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton , Philip Bull

We present an extension to the gauge-invariant formulation of the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, which allows its application to symmetric teleparallel gravity theories. In its original formulation, the gauge-invariant PPN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-12 Manuel Hohmann

We discuss the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit of Horndeski's theory of gravity, also known under the name generalized G-inflation or $\text{G}^2$-inflation, which is the most general scalar-tensor theory of gravity with at most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-17 Manuel Hohmann

We consider the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit of ghost-free massive bimetric gravity with two mutually non-interacting matter sectors coupled to the two metrics. Making use of a gauge-invariant differential decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-14 Manuel Hohmann

This work systematically investigates the post-Newtonian behavior of general quadratic gravity in the weak-field regime. By extending the Einstein-Hilbert action to include quadratic curvature terms as $\mathcal{L}\propto R-\lambda C^2+\mu…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Jie Zhu , Hao Li

Recently, an extension to the Parameterized Post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism has been proposed. This formalism, the Parameterized Post-Newtonian-Vainshteinian (PPNV) formalism, is well suited to theories which exhibit Vainshtein screening of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Nadia Bolis , Constantinos Skordis , Daniel B Thomas , Tom Zlosnik
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