The Perihelion Precession of Mercury and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle

Understand

Very recently authors in [1] proposed a new Generalized Uncertainty Principle (or GUP) with a linear term in Plank length.

• In this Letter the effect of this linear term is studied perturbatively in the context of Keplerian orbits.
• The angle by which the perihelion of the orbit revolves over a complete orbital cycle is computed.
• The result is applied in the context of the precession of the perihelion of Mercury.