Frame-dragging effects in a gravitational quantum field theory

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author Gao, Dongfeng
Ni, Wei-Tou
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Ni, Wei-Tou
contents Analogous to magnetism in electrodynamics, it is gravitomagnetism in relativistic gravity. Since gravity determines locally inertial frames, in general relativity (GR) and other relativistic theories of gravity, frame-dragging with source motion plays a key role in gravitomagnetism. Recently, Wu has put forward a gauge theory of gravity, called the gravitational quantum field theory (GQFT), with the gravitational force and the spin gauge force described by the gauge fields. Gao {\it et al.} ({\it Phy. Rev. D 109, 064072}) have derived the Shapiro time delay in the GQFT and given an empirical constraint from the Cassini experimental result on the dimensionless GQFT parameter $γ_W$ to be $(2.1\pm 2.3)\times 10^{-5}$. In this work, we derive the frame-dragging Lense-Thirring effects in the GQFT. The current precision of LARES-LAGEOS Lense-Thirring measurement gives a constraint on $|γ_W|$ to be less than $2\times 10^{-2}$. This constraint is consistent with, but subdominant to, the Cassini experimental constraint. As a candidate of quantum gravity, we do not expect that the deviation from the GR value ($γ_W=0$) is large, classically. With the launch of LARES 2, the precision of the Lense-Thirring measurement is expected to increase by one order of magnitude in a couple of years. As to the Shapiro effect, current technologies have the capability to measure the $γ_W$ parameter to a precision of $10^{-9}$.
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Gao, Dongfeng
Ni, Wei-Tou
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Analogous to magnetism in electrodynamics, it is gravitomagnetism in relativistic gravity. Since gravity determines locally inertial frames, in general relativity (GR) and other relativistic theories of gravity, frame-dragging with source motion plays a key role in gravitomagnetism. Recently, Wu has put forward a gauge theory of gravity, called the gravitational quantum field theory (GQFT), with the gravitational force and the spin gauge force described by the gauge fields. Gao {\it et al.} ({\it Phy. Rev. D 109, 064072}) have derived the Shapiro time delay in the GQFT and given an empirical constraint from the Cassini experimental result on the dimensionless GQFT parameter $γ_W$ to be $(2.1\pm 2.3)\times 10^{-5}$. In this work, we derive the frame-dragging Lense-Thirring effects in the GQFT. The current precision of LARES-LAGEOS Lense-Thirring measurement gives a constraint on $|γ_W|$ to be less than $2\times 10^{-2}$. This constraint is consistent with, but subdominant to, the Cassini experimental constraint. As a candidate of quantum gravity, we do not expect that the deviation from the GR value ($γ_W=0$) is large, classically. With the launch of LARES 2, the precision of the Lense-Thirring measurement is expected to increase by one order of magnitude in a couple of years. As to the Shapiro effect, current technologies have the capability to measure the $γ_W$ parameter to a precision of $10^{-9}$.
title Frame-dragging effects in a gravitational quantum field theory
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04460