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Do Solar System Tests Permit Higher Dimensional General Relativity?

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We perform a survey whether higher dimensional Schwarzschild space-time is compatible with some of the solar system phenomena. As a test we examine four well known solar system effects, viz., (1) Perihelion shift, (2) Bending of light, (3) Gravitational redshift, and (4) Gravitational time delay. It is shown, under a N-dimensional solutions of Schwarzschild type very narrow class of metrics, that the results related to all these physical phenomena are mostly incompatible with the higher dimensional version of general relativity. We compare all these restricted results with the available data in the literature.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700 032, West Bengal, India

    F. Rahaman & M. Sarker

  2. Department of Physics, Government College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, 700 010, West Bengal, India

    Saibal Ray

  3. Department of Physics, Netaji Nagar College for Women, Regent Estate, Kolkata, 700 092, West Bengal, India

    M. Kalam

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Rahaman, F., Ray, S., Kalam, M. et al. Do Solar System Tests Permit Higher Dimensional General Relativity?. Int J Theor Phys 48, 3124–3138 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-009-0110-2

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