Palatini $f(R)$ gravity tests in the weak field limit: Solar System, seismology and galaxies

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العنوان: Palatini $f(R)$ gravity tests in the weak field limit: Solar System, seismology and galaxies
المؤلفون: Hernandez-Arboleda, Alejandro, Rodrigues, Davi C., Toniato, Júnior D., Wojnar, Aneta
المصدر: Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 2450028 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: Palatini $f(R)$ gravity is probably the simplest extension of general relativity (GR) and the simplest realization of a metric-affine theory. It has the same number of degrees of freedom as GR and, in vacuum, it is straightforwardly mapped into GR with a cosmological constant. The mapping between GR and Palatini $f(R)$ inside matter is possible but at the expense of reinterpreting the meaning of the matter fields. The physical meaning and consequences of such mapping will depend on the physical context. Here we consider three such cases within the weak field limit: Solar System dynamics, planetary internal dynamics (seismology), and galaxies. After revising our previous results on the Solar System and Earth's seismology, we consider here the possibility of $f(R)$ Palatini as a dark matter candidate. For any $f(R)$ that admits a polynomial approximation in the weak field limit, we show here, using SPARC data and a recent method that we proposed, that the theory cannot be used to replace dark matter in galaxies. We also show that the same result applies to the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. Differently from the metric $f(R)$ case, the rotation curve data are sufficient for this conclusion. This result does not exclude a combination of modified gravity and dark matter.
Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures. Submitted as a research article related to the conference Metric-Affine Frameworks for Gravity 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887824500282
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04475
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2306.04475
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1142/S0219887824500282