Published July 6, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

The black hole and FRW geometries of non-relativistic gravity

  • 1. Physics Division, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens (Greece)
  • 2. Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Patras, 26110 Patras (Greece)

Description

We consider the recently proposed non-relativistic Horava-Lifshitz four-dimensional theory of gravity. We study a particular limit of the theory which admits flat Minkowski vacuum and we discuss thoroughly the quadratic fluctuations around it. We find that there are two propagating polarizations of the metric. We then explicitly construct a spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat, black hole solution that represents the analog of the Schwarzschild solution of GR. We show that this theory has the same Newtonian and post-Newtonian limits as GR and thus, it passes the classical tests. We also consider homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions and we show that although the equations are identical with GR cosmology, the couplings are constrained by the observed primordial abundance of 4He.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.06.019

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.06.019;
arXiv
arXiv:0905.0477v1;
PII
S0370-2693(09)00692-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
678
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 123-126
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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