Published December 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Stars and black holes in massive gravity

  • 1. CCPP, Physics Department, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003 (United States)

Description

Generically, massive gravity gives a nonunique gravitational field around a star. For a special family of massive gravity theories, we show that the stellar gravitational field is unique and observationally acceptable, that is close to Einsteinian. The black hole solutions in this family of theories are also studied and shown to be peculiar. Black holes have a near-horizon throat and the curvature diverging at the horizon. We show that there exists a subfamily of these massive gravity theories with nonsingular at horizon black holes.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 124019-124019.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43080427
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; STARS

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics