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Hairy Schwarzschild-(A)dS black hole solutions in DHOST theories beyond shift symmetry

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-04-03 v4

Abstract

We derive the general conditions for a large family of shift symmetry breaking degenerate higher order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories to admit stealth black hole solutions. Such black hole configurations correspond to vacuum solutions of General Relativity and admit a scalar hair which does not gravitate, revealing itself only at the perturbative level. We focus our investigation on hairy Schwarzschild-(A)dS or pure Schwarzschild solutions, dressed with a linear time-dependent scalar hair, and assuming a constant kinetic term. We also discuss subclasses of this family which satisfy the observational constraint cgrav=clightc_{\text{grav}}=c_{\text{light}}, as well as the recent constraint ensuring the absence of graviton decay. We provide at the end concrete examples of DHOST lagrangians satisfying our conditions. This work provides a first analysis of exact black hole solutions in shift symmetry breaking DHOST theories beyond Horndeski.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05369,
  title  = {Hairy Schwarzschild-(A)dS black hole solutions in DHOST theories beyond shift symmetry},
  author = {Jibril Ben Achour and Hongguang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05369},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, mistake corrected, conclusion partially changed, concrete examples added