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Relativistic Coherent Vacuum Gravity Theory (rCVGT)

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This paper presents the full relativistic formulation of the Relativistic Coherent Vacuum Gravity Theory (rCVGT), extending the original Coherent Vacuum Gravity Theory (CVGT) into a covariant field-theoretic framework. The theory is built on four vacuum-structure fields: a vacuum order parameter (psi), a coherence field (Q, proportional to the squared magnitude of psi), a vacuum-flow four-vector (u), and a physical time-rate field (tau). From these fields an emergent spacetime metric can be constructed in regimes where a geometric description is valid. Together they enter a unified relativistic action and generate modified gravitational dynamics through vacuum-coherence contributions to the effective stress-energy tensor.

The theory reproduces Newtonian gravity and the original CVGT in the appropriate limits while predicting coherence-induced antigravity, dark-matter-like halo formation, refractive gravitational-wave propagation, and a time-dependent cosmic acceleration. In the strong-field regime, rCVGT predicts that black holes arise as coherence-saturated and nonsingular vacuum configurations, characterized by Q becoming extremely large and the internal time-rate tau approaching zero. The framework also yields a Penrose-type gravitational self-energy associated with differences in vacuum-coherence structure, providing a physically motivated mechanism for wave-function collapse.

The document includes full field equations, weak-field reductions, cosmological implications, observational signatures, toy models, stability analyses, and extended derivations. The appendices provide modified Friedmann equations, halo solutions, perturbation theory, and a quantum-field interpretation linking vacuum coherence to Casimir-like energy shifts and squeezed-state analogies.

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