Phenomenological approach to the viable nonmetric relativistic scalar 4-vector theory of gravitation

Abstract

Contrary to the hypothesis that every viable theory of gravitation must be the metric one, this paper presents the example of nonmetric relativistic gravitational theory on the basis of Minkowski space-time, where the gravitation is described by a mixture of the nonlinear scalar field and the linear 4-vector field, compatible with all the known post-Newtonian gravitational tests, with tests on gravitational radiation from binary pulsar PSR 1913 + 16 and with the ordinary cosmological notions.