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"The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment"
Clifford M. Will 
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Tests of the Foundations of Gravitation Theory
2.1 The Einstein equivalence principle
2.2 Theoretical frameworks for analyzing EEP
2.3 EEP, particle physics, and the search for new interactions
3 Metric Theories of Gravity and the PPN Formalism
3.1 Metric theories of gravity and the strong equivalence principle
3.2 The parametrized post-Newtonian formalism
3.3 Competing theories of gravity
4 Tests of Post-Newtonian Gravity
4.1 Tests of the parameter γ
4.2 The perihelion shift of Mercury
4.3 Tests of the strong equivalence principle
4.4 Other tests of post-Newtonian gravity
4.5 Prospects for improved PPN parameter values
5 Strong Gravity and Gravitational Waves: Tests for the 21st Century
5.1 Strong-field systems in general relativity
5.2 Motion and gravitational radiation in general relativity: A history
5.3 Compact binary systems in general relativity
5.4 Compact binary systems in scalar–tensor theories
6 Stellar System Tests of Gravitational Theory
6.1 The binary pulsar and general relativity
6.2 A zoo of binary pulsars
6.3 Binary pulsars and alternative theories
6.4 Binary pulsars and scalar–tensor gravity
7 Gravitational-Wave Tests of Gravitational Theory
7.1 Gravitational-wave observatories
7.2 Gravitational-wave amplitude and polarization
7.3 Gravitational-wave phase evolution
7.4 Speed of gravitational waves
8 Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests
9 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Footnotes
Updates
Figures
Tables

Acknowledgments

This work has been supported since the initial version in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant Numbers PHY 96-00049, 00-96522, 03-53180, 06-52448, 09-65133, 12-60995 and 13-06069, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant Numbers NAG5-10186 and NNG-06GI60G. We also gratefully acknowledge the continuing hospitality of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, where portions of this update were completed. We thank Luc Blanchet for helpful comments, and Michael Kramer and Norbert Wex for providing useful figures. We are particularly grateful to Norbert Wex and Nicolás Yunes for detailed and comprehensive comments.


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Clifford M. Will, "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment",
Living Rev. Relativity, 17 (2014), 4, doi:10.12942/lrr-2014-4, URL (accessed <date>): http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2014-4.
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