Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
This paper continues previous work on a possible alternative model of gravity, based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces applied to Newton's law of gravitation. In particular, our Newtonian Fractional-Dimension Gravity (NFDG) is now applied to axially-symmetric stellar structures, such as thin/thick disk galaxies described by exponential, Kuzmin, or other similar mass distributions. As in the case of spherically-symmetric structures, which was studied in previous work on the subject, we examine a possible connection between NFDG and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), a leading alternative gravity model, which accounts for the observed properties of galaxies and other astrophysical structures without requiring the dark matter (DM) hypothesis. By relating the MOND acceleration constant a_{0}
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Varieschi, Gabriele U., "NEWTONIAN FRACTIONAL-DIMENSION GRAVITY AND DISK GALAXIES" (2020). Physics Faculty Works. 61.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phys_fac/61
