Solar-system tests of the inflation model with a Weyl term

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2012-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2465v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

13 pages

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Recently, there has been an interest in inflation and modified gravity with a Weyl term added to the general-relativistic action (N. Derulle, M. Sasaki, Y. Sendouda and A. Youssef, JCAP, 3, 040 (2011)). In this paper we study empirical constraint on this modified gravity from solar-system experiments/observations. We first derive linearized equation of motion in the weak field limit and solve it for isolated system in the slow motion limit. We then use it to derive the light propagation equations, and obtain the relativistic Shapiro time delay and the light deflection in one-body central problem. Applying these results to the solar-system measurements, we obtain constraints on the Weyl term parameter {\gamma}_W; the most stringent constraint, which comes from the Cassini relativistic time delay experiment, is for {\gamma}_W to be less than 0.0015 AU^2, or |{\gamma}_W|^(1/2) less than 0.039 AU (19 s). Analysis of precision laboratory gravity experiments put further limit on the Weyl term parameter {\gamma}_W to below the laboratory scale.

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