2008/01/31 by Christian G. Boehmer, Christian G Böhmer, Tiberiu Harko +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Brane #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Deflection (physics) #Electromagnetic field #Field equation #General relativity #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Solar System #Tidal force #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/4/045015
published as Class.Quant.Grav.25:045015,2008 · 14 pages, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity. V2, minor corrections and references added
arxiv created 2008/02/05 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The classical tests of general relativity (perihelion precession, deflection of light and the radar echo delay) are considered for the Dadhich, Maartens, Papadopoulos and Rezania (DMPR) solution of the spherically symmetric static vacuum field equations in brane world models. For this solution the metric in the vacuum exterior to a brane world star is similar to the Reissner–Nordström form of classical general relativity, with the role of the charge played by the tidal effects arising from projections of the fifth dimension. The existing observational solar system data on the perihelion shift of Mercury, on the light bending around the Sun (obtained using long-baseline radio interferometry), and ranging to Mars using the Viking lander, constrain the numerical values of the bulk tidal parameter and of the brane tension.