• Tensorvectorscalar gravity (TeVeS), developed by Jacob Bekenstein in 2004, is a relativistic generalization of Mordehai Milgrom's Modified Newtonian...
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  • Scalartensorvector gravity (STVG) is a modified theory of gravity developed by John Moffat, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical...
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  • the Bekenstein's tensorvectorscalar gravity and the Moffat's scalartensorvector gravity attribute MONDian behavior to some scalar fields. GVT is the...
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  • with baryon and lepton number. Moffat's Scalartensorvector gravity contains a tensor, vector and three scalar fields. But the equations are quite straightforward...
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  • In cosmological perturbation theory, the scalarvectortensor decomposition is a decomposition of the most general linearized perturbations of the...
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    such as vectors, scalars, and even other tensors. There are many types of tensors, including scalars and vectors (which are the simplest tensors), dual...
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    acceleration. The gravity gradient tensor is a 3x3 tensor; it is given in coordinates by the Jacobian matrix of the acceleration vector ( g = [ g x g y...
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  • metric tensor and Ω ( x ) {\displaystyle \Omega (x)} is a function on spacetime. The simplest theory in this category has the square of the Weyl tensor as...
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  • Nonsymmetric gravitational theory (category Theories of gravity)
    of MSTG, in which the skew symmetric tensor field was replaced by a vector field, is scalartensorvector gravity (STVG). STVG, like Milgrom's Modified...
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  • mathematical field of differential geometry, the Riemann curvature tensor or Riemann–Christoffel tensor (after Bernhard Riemann and Elwin Bruno Christoffel) is the...
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  • gravity is the application of perturbation theory to the metric tensor that describes the geometry of spacetime. As a consequence, linearized gravity...
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  • general relativity, is a tensor theory, in which the gravitational interaction is described using a tensor field. The prototypical scalar theory of gravitation...
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    quantity, represented by a scalar, vector, or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time. An example of a scalar field is a weather map, with...
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  • Bi-scalar tensor vector gravity theory (BSTV) is an extension of the tensorvectorscalar gravity theory (TeVeS). TeVeS is a relativistic generalization...
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    John Moffat (physicist) (category Quantum gravity physicists)
    known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his nonsymmetric gravitational theory and scalartensorvector gravity (now called MOG), and...
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  • {r_{2}-r_{1}} |}}} is the unit vector from body 1 to body 2. It can be seen that the vector form of the equation is the same as the scalar form given earlier, except...
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    stress-energy tensor The stress–energy tensor, sometimes called the stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity...
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    with scalar fields, and 1-forms and 2-forms with vector fields: grad takes a scalar field (0-form) to a vector field (1-form); curl takes a vector field...
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    which associate a vector to every point of a region, as well as tensor fields and spinor fields.[citation needed] More subtly, scalar fields are often...
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  • zero curl (equivalently, gravity is a conservative force) as mentioned above, it can be written as the gradient of a scalar potential, called the gravitational...
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  • invariants of the Ricci tensor and the Weyl tensor. Special cases are f(R) gravity, conformal gravity, Gauss–Bonnet gravity and Lovelock gravity. Notice that with...
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    Kaluza–Klein theory (category Theories of gravity)
    electromagnetic vector potential, the five-dimensional stress–energy tensor comprises the four-dimensional stress–energy tensor framed by the vector 4-current...
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  • Bimetric gravity – Proposed theories of gravity DGP model – Proposed model of gravity Scalartensor theory – Theory in physics with scalars and tensors both...
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  • nonzero vector that, when T is applied to it, does not change direction. Applying T to the eigenvector only scales the eigenvector by the scalar value λ...
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  • generalized for vector fields, tensor fields, and spinor fields. In physics, fermions are described by spinor fields. Bosons are described by tensor fields, which...
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    \mathbf {G} =\kappa \mathbf {T} ,} where T is the stress–energy tensor, G is the Einstein tensor, and κ is the Einstein gravitational constant. The latter is...
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  • the Ricci tensor, g is the metric tensor and R is the scalar curvature. It is used in the Einstein field equations. The stress–energy tensor (sometimes...
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  • its causal structure. It is related to topologically massive gravity and the Cotton tensor. It is a possible UV completion of general relativity. Also...
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  • Scalar-Tensor theories (or DHOST theories) are theories of modified gravity. They have a Lagrangian containing second-order derivatives of a scalar field...
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  • Ricci curvature tensor, and R is the scalar curvature. This is a symmetric second-degree tensor that depends on only the metric tensor and its first and...
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