English

On the causality properties in non-local gravity theories

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-09-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is well known that non-local theories of gravity have been a flourish arena of studies for many reasons, for instance, the UV incompleteness of General Relativity (GR). In this paper we check the consistency of ST-homogeneous G\"{o}del-type metrics within the non-local gravity framework. The non-local models considered here are ghost-free but not necessarily renormalizable since we focus on the classical solutions of the field equations. Furthermore, the non-locality is displayed in the action through transcendental entire functions of the d'Alembert operator \Box that are mathematically represented by a power series of the \Box-operator. We find two exactly solutions for the field equations correspondent to the degenerate (ω=0\omega=0) and hyperbolic (m2=4ω2m^{2}=4\omega^2) classes of ST-homogeneous G\"{o}del-type metrics.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.01600,
  title  = {On the causality properties in non-local gravity theories},
  author = {J. R. Nascimento and A. Yu. Petrov and P. J. Porfírio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01600},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

16 pages, version accepted to EPJ C

R2 v1 2026-06-23T22:46:16.209Z