An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation

Details An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation

2004-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412652v3

PoS JHW2004 (2005) 012

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, invited talk at the 28th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, June 2004, Johns Hopkins Uni

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MOND, invented by Milgrom, is a phenomenological scheme whose basic premise is that the visible matter distribution in a galaxy or cluster of galaxies alone determines its dynamics. MOND fits many observations surprisingly well. Could it be that there is no dark matter in these systems and we witness rather a violation of Newton's universal gravity law ? If so, Einstein's general relativity would also be violated. For long conceptual problems have prevented construction of a consistent relativistic substitute which does not obviously run afoul of the facts. Here I sketch TeVeS, a tensor-vector-scalar field theory which seems to fit the bill: it has no obvious conceptual problems and has a MOND and Newtonian limits under the proper circumstances. It also passes the elementary solar system tests of gravity theory.

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