Galaxy rotation curves from general relativity with renormalization group corrections

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Rodrigues, Davi C ^a   Letelier, Patricio C ^a   Shapiro, Ilya L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Quantum field theory on curved space; Rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951536691     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/020     Document Type: Article

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