Astrophysics
[Submitted on 10 Dec 1996]
Title:A stratified framework for scalar-tensor theories of Modified Dynamics
View PDFAbstract: Although the modified dynamics (MOND) proposed by Milgrom successfully accounts for the systematics of galaxy rotation curves and cluster dynamics without invoking dark matter, the idea remains a largely ad hoc modification of Newtonian dynamics with no basis in deeper theory. Non-standard scalar-tensor theories have been suggested as a theoretical basis for MOND; however, any such theory with the usual conformal relation between the Einstein and physical metrics fails to predict the degree of light deflection observed in distant clusters of galaxies. In the present paper, I demonstrate that one can write down a framework for scalar-tensor theories which predict the MOND phenomenology for the low velocity (v<<c) dynamics of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and which are consistent with observations of extragalactic gravitational lenses provided that one drops the requirement of the Lorentz Invariance of gravitational dynamics. This leads to ``preferred frame'' theories characterized by a non-conformal relation between the two metrics. I describe a toy theory in which the local environment (the solar system, binary pulsars) is protected from detectable preferred frame effects by the very same non-standard (aquadratic) scalar Lagrangian which gives rise to the MOND phenomenology. Although this particular theory is also contrived, it represents a limiting case for two-field theories of MOND, and is consistent with a wide range of gravitational phenomena.
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