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Galaxy rotation curves in de Sitter space

General Physics 2015-01-28 v2

Abstract

Dark energy inferred from the observed negative deceleration parameter introduces a small mass of the graviton, that satisfies the Higuchi stability condition. It implies an infra-red modification of gravitation that produces Milgrom's inverse distance law of gravitational attraction in excellent agreement with the observed galaxy rotation curves. We conclude that dark matter is present cosmologically with no need for local clustering in galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2665,
  title  = {Galaxy rotation curves in de Sitter space},
  author = {Maurice H. P. M. van Putten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2665},
  year   = {2015}
}

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minor revision of introduction; 3 pages, 1 figure, presented at the 4th KIAS Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Oct 27-31, Seoul

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