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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie
GR 14: Alternative classical theories of gravitation I
GR 14.1: Talk
Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 17:30–17:50, SPA SR220
On a Finsler-type modification of the Coulomb law — Yakov Itin1, Claus Lämmerzahl2, and •Volker Perlick2 — 1Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel — 2ZARM, Universitaet Bremen
We demonstrate that a Finslerian modification of the spacetime metric leads to modified Maxwell equations which are no longer differential equations but rather pseudo-differential equation. The corrections to the Coulomb potential and to the hydrogen energy levels are computed. We find that the Finsler modification of the metric yields a splitting of the energy levels. We calculate the bounds on the Finsler parameters from experimental data.