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The omega-tends-to-infinity limit of Brans-Dicke theory

Valerio Faraoni

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9805057

Abstract

The standard tenet that Brans-Dicke theory reduces to general relativity in the omega-tends-to-infinity limit has been shown to be false when the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor vanishes. The issue is clarified in a new approach and the asymptotic behaviour of the Brans-Dicke scalar is rigorously derived.

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