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MOND-like acceleration in integrable Weyl geometric gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-02-09 v4

Abstract

In this paper a Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory of gravity with scalar field Φ\Phi and scale invariant cubic ("aquadratic") kinetic Lagrangian is introduced. Einstein gauge (comparable to Einstein frame in Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory) is most natural for studying trajectories. In it, the Weylian scale connection induces an additional acceleration which in the weak field, static, low velocity limit acquires the deep MOND form of Milgrom/Bekenstein's gravity. The energy momentum of Φ\Phi leads to another add on to Newton acceleration. Both additional accelerations together imply a MOND-ian phenomenology of the model. It has unusual transition functions. They imply higher phantom energy density than in the case of the more common MOND models with transition functions μ1(x),μ2(x)\mu_1(x), \, \mu_2(x). A considerable part of it is due to the scalar field's energy density which, in our model, gives a scale and generally covariant expression for the self-energy of the gravitational field.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0430,
  title  = {MOND-like acceleration in integrable Weyl geometric gravity},
  author = {Erhard Scholz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0430},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

In v.4 the scalar field equation has been simplified by suppressing the B-terms (modification of the kinetic Lagrangian). This improves the MOND approximation considerably. The role of the "upper" transition regime has been made more explicit. 37 pp, 2 figures

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