Phys. Rev. D 56, 1334–1337 (1997)Does Brans-Dicke theory always yield general relativity in the infinite ω limit?Received 27 December 1996; published in the issue dated 15 July 1997 In this work it is shown that the Brans-Dicke theory of gravity does not always go over to general relativity in the ω→α limit. It is also shown, by an order of magnitude estimate, that one can get general relativity as a limit of Brans-Dicke theory when ω→α, only if the trace of the energy-momentum tensor describing all fields other than the Brans-Dicke scalar field is nonzero. © 1997 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1334
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1334
PACS:
04.50.+h
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