https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11117-6
Regular Article
The precession of the orbit of a test neutral body interacting with a massive charged body
Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, U.P. Adolfo López Mateos, Zacatenco C.P. 07738, México D.F., Mexico
* e-mail: aavalos@esfm.ipn.mx
Received:
13
September
2011
Accepted:
4
October
2011
Published online:
30
November
2011
The precession of the orbit of a neutral test body interacting with a charged massive body is obtained by means of two different methods. Both methods, the direct one and the post-Newtonian approximation, give the same expression for the precession. This result is different from the precession proposed by the absolute parallelism space formalism.
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