English

Complete Classification of Four-Dimensional Black Hole and Membrane Solutions in IR-modified Ho\v{r}ava Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-10-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Ho\v{r}ava gravity has been proposed as a renormalizable, higher-derivative gravity without ghost problems, by considering different scaling dimensions for space and time. In the non-relativistic higher-derivative generalization of Einstein gravity, the meaning and physical properties of black hole and membrane space-times are quite different from the conventional ones. Here, we study the singularity and horizon structures of such geometries in IR-modified Ho\v{r}ava gravity, where the so-called "detailed balance" condition is softly broken in IR. We classify all the viable static solutions without naked singularities and study its close connection to non-singular cosmology solutions. We find that, in addition to the usual point-like singularity at r=0r=0, there exists a "surface-like" curvature singularity at finite r=rSr=r_S which is the cutting edge of the real-valued space-time. The degree of divergence of such singularities is milder than those of general relativity, and the Hawking temperature of the horizons diverges when they coincide with the singularities. As a byproduct we find that, in addition to the usual "asymptotic limit," a consistent flow of coupling constants, that we called "GR flow limit," is needed in order to recover general relativity in the IR.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04380,
  title  = {Complete Classification of Four-Dimensional Black Hole and Membrane Solutions in IR-modified Ho\v{r}ava Gravity},
  author = {Carlos Argüelles and Nicolás Grandi and Mu-In Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04380},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Accepted in JHEP, Typos corrected