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Generalization of the post-Newtonian formalism

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The most natural way of generalizing the post-Newtonian formalism is considered. It is shown that the most general form of the metric of a Riemannian spacetime in the post-Newtonian approximation must have 17 free parameters.

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  1. V. L. Denisov
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Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Moscow State University. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 500–509, June, 1992.

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Denisov, V.L., Denisov, M.I. Generalization of the post-Newtonian formalism. Theor Math Phys 91, 677–682 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01017345

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