Published September 21, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Exact solutions in massive gravity

  • 1. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 3FX (United Kingdom)

Description

Massive gravity is a good theoretical framework to study the modifications of General Relativity. The theory offers a concrete set-up to study models of dark energy, since it admits cosmological self-accelerating solutions in the vacuum, in which the size of the acceleration depends on the graviton mass. Moreover, nonlinear gravitational self-interactions, in the proximity of a matter source, manage to mimic the predictions of linearized General Relativity; hence, agreeing with solar-system precision measurements. In this paper, we review our work in the subject, classifying, on one hand, static solutions, and on the other hand, self-accelerating backgrounds. For the static solutions, we exhibit black hole configurations, together with other solutions that recover General Relativity near a source via the Vainshtein mechanism. For the self-accelerating solutions, we describe a wide class of cosmological backgrounds, including an analysis of their stability. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/30/18/184002

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
18
Journal Page Range
[22 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45011400
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; EXACT SOLUTIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SOLAR SYSTEM
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATTER; RELATIVITY THEORY