Consistency of the Nonsymmetric Gravitational Theory

Abstract

A nonsymmetric gravitational theory (NGT) is presented which is free of ghost poles, tachyons and higher-order poles and there are no problems with asymptotic boundary conditions. An extended Birkhoff theorem is shown to hold for the spherically symmetric solution of the field equations. A static spherically symmetric solution in the short-range approximation, ${\mu }^{-1}>2m$, is everywhere regular and does not contain a black hole event horizon.

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