Christian G Böhmer et al 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 045015 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/4/045015
Christian G Böhmer1, Tiberiu Harko2 and Francisco S N Lobo3,4
Show affiliationsThe 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.
04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity
83E15 Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories
83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
Issue 4 (21 February 2008)
Received 17 October 2007, in final form 6 January 2008
Published 5 February 2008
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