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Solar System tests in $f(T)$ gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-05-26 v1

Abstract

We investigate the four solar system tests of gravity - perihelion precession, light bending, Shapiro time delay, gravitational redshift - in f(T)f(T) gravity. In particular, we investigate the solution derived by Ruggiero and Radicella, Phys. Rev. D 91, 104014 (2015), for a nondiagonal vierbein field for a polynomial f(T)=T+αTnf(T) = T + \alpha T^n, where α\alpha is a constant and n1|n| \neq 1. In this paper, we derive the solutions for each test, in which Weinberg's, Bodenner and Will's, Cattani et al. and Rindler and Ishak's methods are applied, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (Wiley, New York, 1972); Am. J. Phys. 71 (2003); Phys. Rev. D 87, 047503 (2013); Phys. Rev. D 76, 043006 (2007). We set a constraint on alpha for nn = 2, 3 by using data available from literature.

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@article{arxiv.1605.07614,
  title  = {Solar System tests in $f(T)$ gravity},
  author = {Gabriel Farrugia and Jackson Levi Said and Matteo Luca Ruggiero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07614},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure

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