The nearly Newtonian regime in non-linear theories of gravity

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1407-1417

  Sotiriou, Thomas P ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

f(R) gravity; Metric variation; Newtonian limit; Palatini variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747889653     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-006-0328-8     Document Type: Article

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