Solar System tests DO rule out 1/R gravity

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dc.creatorErickcek, Adrienne L.
dc.creatorSmith, Tristan L.
dc.creatorKamionkowski, Marc
dc.date2006-10-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:26:11Z
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dc.descriptionShortly after the addition of a 1/R term to the Einstein-Hilbert action was proposed as a solution to the cosmic-acceleration puzzle, Chiba showed that such a theory violates Solar System tests of gravity. A flurry of recent papers have called Chiba's result into question. They argue that the spherically-symmetric vacuum spacetime in this theory is the Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution, making this theory consistent with Solar System tests. We point out that although the Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution exists in this theory, it is not the unique spherically-symmetric vacuum solution, and it is not the solution that describes the spacetime in the Solar System. The solution that correctly matches onto the stellar-interior solution differs from Schwarzschild-de Sitter in a way consistent with Chiba's claims. Thus, 1/R gravity is ruled out by Solar System tests.
dc.description4 pages, no figures. Submitted to PRD Rapid Communications
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610483
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610483
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:121501,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.121501
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/195744
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleSolar System tests DO rule out 1/R gravity
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