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Analytic solutions in non-linear massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-11-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study spherically symmetric solutions in a covariant massive gravity model, which is a candidate for a ghost-free non-linear completion of the Fierz-Pauli theory. There is a branch of solutions that exhibits the Vainshtein mechanism, recovering General Relativity below a Vainshtein radius given by (rgm2)1/3(r_g m^2)^{1/3}, where mm is the graviton mass and rgr_g is the Schwarzschild radius of a matter source. Another branch of exact solutions exists, corresponding to Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes where the curvature scale of de Sitter space is proportional to the mass squared of the graviton.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4708,
  title  = {Analytic solutions in non-linear massive gravity},
  author = {Kazuya Koyama and Gustavo Niz and Gianmassimo Tasinato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4708},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, version accepted by PRL

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