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Rotating Black Holes in Higher Order Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-16 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We develop a new technique for finding black hole solutions in modified gravity that have "stealth" hair, i.e., hair whose only gravitational effect is to tune the cosmological constant. We consider scalar-tensor theories in which gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light, and show that Einstein metrics can be painted with stealth hair provided there exists a family of geodesics always normal to spacelike surfaces. We also present a novel scalar-dressed rotating black hole that has finite scalar field at both the black hole and cosmological event horizons.

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@article{arxiv.1903.05519,
  title  = {Rotating Black Holes in Higher Order Gravity},
  author = {Christos Charmousis and Marco Crisostomi and Ruth Gregory and Nikolaos Stergioulas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05519},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures

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