TITLE:
The Gravitational Field Equation on NUVO Space
AUTHORS:
Rickey W. Austin
KEYWORDS:
NUVO Space, Conformal Scalar Field, Weighted Geometry, Scalar Curvature, Variational Structure, Energy-Momentum Conservation, Weak-Field Limit
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.13 No.12,
December
8,
2025
ABSTRACT: We derive the gravitational field equation on NUVO space
(
M,g
)
, where
g=
λ
2
η
with
η
flat and
λ>0
smooth. Starting from the scalar curvature functional and the
λ
-weighted calculus developed in NUVO Space I-II, we perform a constrained conformal variation to obtain the dynamical equation for
λ
and its coupling to matter via the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. We show that diffeomorphism invariance implies energy-momentum conservation
∇
g
⋅T=0
and recover a
λ
-weighted continuity relation for the sinertia current
J
μ
=λρ
u
μ
. In the weak-field limit the field equation reduces to a Poisson-type equation for
λ
, yielding the Newtonian regime and setting the stage for a post-Newtonian (PPN) analysis in subsequent work.