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On a conformal theory of gravitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Jamal N. Islam
Jamal N. Islam
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Recently Hoyle and Narlikar(2) have put forward a conformal theory of gravitation in which they obtain an explicit solution of the field equations using certain approximations and assumptions of symmetry. To obtain the solution, the metric is assumed to have a special form. In the present paper a more general form of the metric is considered, and it is shown that many of the features of the special solution are shared by the solution in the more general case. In particular, the implications of the special solution as concerns the sign of the gravitational constant remain valid in the more general case under certain assumptions.

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , July 1967 , pp. 809 - 817
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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