Equations of motion of test bodies in a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Equations of motion of test bodies in a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field
zbMATH Open document ID: 0566.70015
DOI: 10.1007/BF00759235
author: Alan Coley
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: We consider a class of theories of gravity in which the motion of test particles is governed by the path equation (with respect to a general affine connection \(\Gamma)\). When we restrict attention to a spherically symmetric, static gravitational field, the path equation is characterized by three arbitrary functions of the gravitational field (as opposed to two in the case of metric theories where \(\Gamma =\{ \})\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70G45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C10
zbMATH DE Number: 3904023
zbMATH Keywords: nonmetric theories of gravity
zbMATH Keywords: motion of test particles
zbMATH Keywords: general affine connection
zbMATH Keywords: spherically symmetric, static gravitational field
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Non-Riemann geometrizable effects in the gravitational one-body problem
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00759235
OpenAlex ID: W1988092521
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3904023