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Classical tests in brane gravity
The vacuum solutions in brane gravity differ from those in 4D by a number of
additional terms and reduce to the familiar Schwarzschild metric at small
distances. We study the possible roles that such terms may play in the
precession of planetary orbits, bending of light, radar retardation and the
anomaly in mean motion of test bodies. Using the available data from Solar
System experiments, we determine the range of the free parameters associated
with the linear term in the metric. The best results come from the anomalies in
the mean motion of planets. Such studies should shed some light on the origin
of dark energy via the solar system tests.Comment: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in CQ