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arxiv: 1906.05185 · v1 · pith:QH6XXTBYnew · submitted 2019-06-12 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.GA· hep-th

Galactic rotation curves in Einstein's conformal gravity

Qiang Li , Leonardo Modesto This is my paper
classification 🌀 gr-qc astro-ph.GAhep-th
keywords conformalgravitycurveseinsteingalacticrotationbasebroken
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We show quantitatively that an exact solution of Einstein's conformal gravity can explain very well the galactic rotation curves for a sample of 104 galaxies without need for dark matter or other exotic modification of gravity. The metric is an overall rescaling of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime as required by Weyl conformal invariance, which has to be spontaneously broken, and the velocity of the stars depends only on two universal parameters determined on the base of the observational data.

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