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General Relativity is fundamentally grounded on the universality of the gravitational interaction, which is the basic statement of the weak equivalence principle. If universality somehow fails, the geometric description of General Relativity breaks down. Due to its gauge structure, Teleparallel Gravity does not require the weak equivalence principle, and remains a consistent theory in the lack of universality.
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Aldrovandi, R., Pereira, J.G. (2013). Gravitation in the Lack of Universality. In: Teleparallel Gravity. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 173. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5143-9_11
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