Published September 22, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Uniqueness of static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in the IR limit of nonrelativistic quantum gravity

  • 1. Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo 175-8501 (Japan)

Description

We investigate static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in the IR limit of projectable nonrelativistic quantum gravity, including the renormalisable quantum gravity recently proposed by Horava, with an emphasis on the uniqueness of the solutions. It is found that the projectability condition plays an important role. Without the cosmological constant, the spacetime is uniquely given by the Schwarzschild solution. With the cosmological constant, the spacetime is uniquely given by the Kottler (Schwarzschild-(anti) de Sitter) solution for the entirely vacuum spacetime. However, in addition to the Kottler solution, the static spherical and hyperbolic universes are uniquely admissible for the locally empty region, for the positive and negative cosmological constants, respectively. This implies that static spherically symmetric entirely vacuum solutions would not admit the freedom to reproduce the observed flat rotation curves of galaxies.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/314/1/012120

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
314
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[3 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
Spanish relativity meeting: Gravity as a crossroad in physics
Acronym
ERE 2010
Dates
6-10 Sep 2010
Place
Granada (Spain)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43085596
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ANTI DE SITTER GROUP; ANTI DE SITTER SPACE; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; GALAXIES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; ROTATION; SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC; SPACE-TIME; SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION; SYMMETRY; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
CONFIGURATION; FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; METRICS; MOTION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS