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Black holes in multi-fractional and Lorentz-violating models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-05-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study static and radially symmetric black holes in the multi-fractional theories of gravity with qq-derivatives and with weighted derivatives, frameworks where the spacetime dimension varies with the probed scale and geometry is characterized by at least one fundamental length \ell_*. In the qq-derivatives scenario, one finds a tiny shift of the event horizon. Schwarzschild black holes can present an additional ring singularity, not present in general relativity, whose radius is proportional to \ell_*. In the multi-fractional theory with weighted derivatives, there is no such deformation, but non-trivial geometric features generate a cosmological-constant term, leading to a de Sitter--Schwarzschild black hole. For both scenarios, we compute the Hawking temperature and comment on the resulting black hole thermodynamics. In the case with qq-derivatives, black holes can be hotter than usual and possess an additional ring singularity, while in the case with weighted derivatives they have a de Sitter hair of purely geometric origin, which may lead to a solution of the cosmological constant problem similar to that in unimodular gravity. Finally, we compare our findings with other Lorentz-violating models.

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@article{arxiv.1703.07811,
  title  = {Black holes in multi-fractional and Lorentz-violating models},
  author = {Gianluca Calcagni and David Rodríguez Fernández and Michele Ronco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07811},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor typos corrected, references added