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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/044
Keywords
modified gravity; gravity
Funding
- CONACYT
- Royal Society
- STFC
- European Research Council
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) / ERC Theories and Models of the Dark Sector: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravity [617656]
- STFC [ST/L000393/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000393/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Light degrees of freedom that modify gravity on cosmological scales must be screened on solar system scales in order to be compatible with data. The Vainshtein mechanism achieves this through a breakdown of classical perturbation theory, as large interactions involving new degrees of freedom become important below the so-called Vainshtein radius. We begin to develop an extension of the Parameterized Post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism that is able to handle Vainshteinian corrections. We argue that theories with a unique Vainshtein scale must be expanded using two small parameters. In this Parameterized Post-Newtonian-Vainshteinian (PPNV) expansion, the primary expansion parameter that controls the PPN order is, as usual, the velocity v. The secondary expansion parameter, alpha, controls the strength of the Vainshteinian correction and is a theory-specific combination of the Schwarzschild radius and the Vainshtein radius of the source that is independent of its mass. We present the general framework and apply it to Cubic Galileon theory both inside and outside the Vainshtein radius. The PPNV framework can be used to determine the compatibility of such theories with solar system and other strong-field data.
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