Solar System tests in $f(T)$ gravity
Abstract
We investigate the four solar system tests of gravity - perihelion precession, light bending, Shapiro time delay, gravitational redshift - in 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 , where is a constant and . 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 = 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