Published October 15, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Complete classification of four-dimensional black hole and membrane solutions in IR-modified Hořava gravity

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma,P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome (Italy)
  • 2. ICRANet,P.zza della Repubblica 10, I-65122 Pescara (Italy)
  • 3. Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Associate Scheme,Strada Costiera 11, 34151, Trieste (Italy)
  • 4. Instituto de Física de La Plata - CONICET & Dto. de Física,Universidad Nacional de La Plata,C.C. 67, 1900 La Plata (Argentina)
  • 5. Research Institute for Basic Science, Sogang University,Seoul, 121-742 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Hořava gravity has been proposed as a renormalizable, higher-derivative gravity without ghost problems, by considering different scaling dimensions for space and time. In the non-relativistic higher-derivative generalization of Einstein gravity, the meaning and physical properties of black hole and membrane space-times are quite different from the conventional ones. Here, we study the singularity and horizon structures of such geometries in IR-modified Hořava gravity, where the so-called "detailed balance" condition is softly broken in IR. We classify all the viable static solutions without naked singularities and study its close connection to non-singular cosmology solutions. We find that, in addition to the usual point-like singularity at r=0, there exists a "surface-like" curvature singularity at finite r=rS which is the cutting edge of the real-valued space-time. The degree of divergence of such singularities is milder than those of general relativity, and the Hawking temperature of the horizons diverges when they coincide with the singularities. As a byproduct we find that, in addition to the usual "asymptotic limit", a consistent flow of coupling constants, that we called "GR flow limit", is needed in order to recover general relativity in the IR.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)100; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/12322

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 100
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP10(2015)100; ARXIV:1508.04380v3; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:12322
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)