List Of Tables

List of Tables

Table 1:
Bounds on cosmological variation of fundamental constants of non-gravitational physics. For an in-depth review, see [262].

Table 2:
The PPN Parameters and their significance (note that $α3$ has been shown twice to indicate that it is a measure of two effects).

Table 3:
Metric theories and their PPN parameter values ( $α3 = ζi = 0$ for all cases). The parameters $γ ′$ , $β′$ , $α′1$ , and $α ′2$ denote complicated functions of $u$ and of the arbitrary constants. Here $Λ$ is not the cosmological constant $ΛC$ , but is defined by Equation (37

Table 4:
Current limits on the PPN parameters. Here $ηN$ is a combination of other parameters given by $η = 4β − γ − 3 − 10ξ∕3 − α + 2α ∕3 − 2ζ ∕3 − ζ ∕3 N 1 2 1 2$ .

Table 5:
Constancy of the gravitational constant. For binary pulsar data, the bounds are dependent upon the theory of gravity in the strong-field regime and on neutron star equation of state. Big-bang nucleosynthesis bounds assume specific form for time dependence of G.

Table 6:
Parameters of the binary pulsar B1913+16. The numbers in parentheses denote errors in the last digit. Data taken from [18, 272]. Note that $γ ′$ is not the same as the PPN parameter $γ$ (see Equations (78

)).

Table 7:
Parameters of other binary pulsars. References may be found in the text; for an online catalogue of pulsars with reasonably up-to-date parameters, see [18].