Weyl conformastatic perihelion advance

Gravitational Thomas Precession and the Perihelion Advance of Mercury

Gravitational Thomas Precession ( GTP ) is the name given to Thomas Precession when the acceleration is caused by a gravitational force field. The GTP gives a negative contribution of 7 · 163 arcsec/century for the anomalous perihelion advance of Mercury’s orbit.This effect seems to be of some concern for the General Relativity. PACS: 04.80Cc ; 96.30Dz

Solar quadrupole moment and purely relativistic gravitation contributions to Mercury’s perihelion Advance

The perihelion advance of the orbit of Mercury has long been one of the observational cornerstones for testing General Relativity (G.R.). The main goal of this paper is to discuss how, presently, observational and theoretical constraints may challenge Einstein’s theory of gravitation characterized by β = γ = 1. To achieve this purpose, we will first recall the experimental constraints upon the ...

A flat space-time relativistic explanation for the perihelion advance of Mercury

Starting with the flat space-time relativistic versions of Maxwell-Heaviside’s toy model vector theory of gravity and introducing the gravitational analogues for the electromagnetic Lienard-Wiechert potentials together with the notion of a gravitational Thomas Precession; the observed anomalous perihelion advance of Mercury’s orbit is here explained as a relativistic effect in flat (Minkowski) ...

Mercury’s Perihelion

The contribution to the perihelion advance of Mercury arising out of the dependence of mass on gravitational potential

The effect of general relativistic prediction of the dependence of mass on gravitational potential on the dynamics of a planet moving around the sun is shown to have a negative contribution of 14 · 326 arcsec/century towards the overall non-Newtonian perihelion advance of Mercury. PACS: 04.80Cc ; 04.25Nx