Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies
  We present a method to investigate relativistic effects arising from large
masses. The method is non-perturbative and employs a mean-field approximation
and gravitational lensing. Using this method and a basic model of disk galaxy,
we find that relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies
are significant at large galactic radii. The model predicts a strong
correlation between the inferred galactic dark mass and the galactic disk
thickness, which we verified using two separate sets of observational data.
