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Conformal Weyl gravity and perihelion precession

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arxiv 1910.06118 v1 pith:KC6AKALK submitted 2019-10-11 gr-qc

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keywords perihelionshiftsolutionconformalconstantearliergammagravity
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We investigate the perihelion shift of planetary motion in conformal Weyl gravity using the metric of the static, spherically symmetric solution discovered by Mannheim \& Kazanas (1989). To this end we employ a procedure similar to that used by Weinberg for the Schwarzschild solution, which has also been used recently to study the solar system effects of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We show that besides the general relativistic terms obtained earlier from the Schwarzschild - de Sitter solution, the expression for the perihelion shift includes a negative contribution which arises from the linear term $\gamma r$ in the metric. Using data for perihelion shift observations we obtain constraints on the value of the constant $\gamma$ similar to that obtained earlier using galactic rotational curves.

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