Abstract
In this work it is shown that the Brans-Dicke theory of gravity does not always go over to general relativity in the 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 only if the trace of the energy-momentum tensor describing all fields other than the Brans-Dicke scalar field is nonzero.
- Received 27 December 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1334
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