Linearized Analysis of Rastall Gravity

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contents Rastall gravity is a generalization of the Einstein gravity in which the matter is not conserved in the presence of a non-constant spacetime curvature. In this report, we analyze Rastall gravity using the linearized formalism. The linearized metric for a localized matter without pressure and shear stress is obtained, and a spherically symmetric metric for a non-rotating mass is derived. A phenomenological consequence, known as the gravitoelectromagnetism, is subsequently discussed in detail, where it is shown that a free-falling observer will see the motion of a nearby free particle as being subject to a velocity-independent gravitoelectric force and a velocity-dependent gravitomagnetic force. An explicit calculation of the gravitoelectric and gravitomagnetic fields as seen by an observer moving in a circular orbit in a spherically symmetric gravitational field is presented, and it is shown that the resulting gravitomagnetic field is perpendicular to the observer's moving direction.
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Tongkong, Yuwadee
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Rastall gravity is a generalization of the Einstein gravity in which the matter is not conserved in the presence of a non-constant spacetime curvature. In this report, we analyze Rastall gravity using the linearized formalism. The linearized metric for a localized matter without pressure and shear stress is obtained, and a spherically symmetric metric for a non-rotating mass is derived. A phenomenological consequence, known as the gravitoelectromagnetism, is subsequently discussed in detail, where it is shown that a free-falling observer will see the motion of a nearby free particle as being subject to a velocity-independent gravitoelectric force and a velocity-dependent gravitomagnetic force. An explicit calculation of the gravitoelectric and gravitomagnetic fields as seen by an observer moving in a circular orbit in a spherically symmetric gravitational field is presented, and it is shown that the resulting gravitomagnetic field is perpendicular to the observer's moving direction.
title Linearized Analysis of Rastall Gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05499