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A Weyl geometric scalar field approach to the dark sector

@inproceedings{Scholz2022AWG,
  title={A Weyl geometric scalar field approach to the dark sector},
  author={Erhard Scholz},
  year={2022}
}
This paper explores the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy) from the perspective of Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory (integrable Weyl geometry). In order to account for the galactic dynamics success-fully modelled by MOND (“modified Newtonian dynamics”), the non-minimally coupled scalar field considered here has a Lagrangian with two non-conventional contributions in addition to a standard kinetic term: one is inspired by Bekenstein/Milgrom’s RAQUAL (“relativistic a-quadratic Lagrangian… 
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