Post-Newtonian limit of generalized scalar-teleparallel theories of gravity

2024

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DOI 10.1103/physrevd.109.044070
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Abstract

We propose a general class of scalar-teleparallel theories, which are based on a scalar field which is coupled to a flat connection with torsion and nonmetricity, and study its post-Newtonian limit using the parametrized post-Newtonian formalism. We find that among this class there are theories whose post-Newtonian limit fully agrees with general relativity; for others only the parameters $\ensuremath{\beta}$ and $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ deviate from their general relativity values $\ensuremath{\beta}=\ensuremath{\gamma}=1$, while all other parameters remain the same, thus preserving total momentum conservation, local Lorentz invariance and local position invariance; finally, we also find theories whose post-Newtonian limit is pathological. Our main result is a full classification of the proposed theories into these different cases. We apply our findings to a number of simpler classes of theories and show that for these a subset of the aforementioned cases can be found.