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A new class of semiclassical gravity solutions, gravitational quantum stealths and regular Cauchy horizons

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider semiclassical gravity with a Klein-Gordon field with mass m20m^2 \geq 0 and curvature coupling ξ=1/2\xi = 1/2. We identify a special class of Hadamard two-point functions for which the semiclassical system is quasi-linear hyperbolic and, within this class, provide the first well-posedness result for semiclassical gravity without spacetime symmetries. These two-point functions yield stress-energy expectation values proportional to the spacetime metric (modulo ambiguities). If the proportionality constant vanishes, one has a quantum version of gravitational `stealth' configurations. We discuss that some of these solutions have regular Cauchy horizons in the light of strong cosmic censorship.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08402,
  title  = {A new class of semiclassical gravity solutions, gravitational quantum stealths and regular Cauchy horizons},
  author = {Benito A. Juárez-Aubry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08402},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages. Expanded version including examples and a more thorough discussion of strong cosmic censorship