DARK MATTER, TIME-VARYING G, AND A DILATON FIELD

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作者
DAMOUR, T
GIBBONS, GW
GUNDLACH, C
机构
[1] OBSERV PARIS,CNRS,DEPT ASTROPHYS RELAT & COSMOL,F-92195 MEUDON,FRANCE
[2] UNIV CAMBRIDGE,DEPT APPL MATH & THEORET PHYS,CAMBRIDGE CB3 9EW,ENGLAND
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.123
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We demonstrate the observational viability of having an exactly massless dilaton field couple with gravitational strength to most matter in the Universe. This is done by constructing a generalized Jordan-Brans-Dicke model in which the scalar couples with different strengths to visible and to conjectured eedarkee matter. In this model, improved a measurements may provide nontrivial bounds on the coupling constants of the dilaton to matter. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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