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Scalarized compact objects in a vector-tensor Horndeski gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-01-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We have discovered a new type of scalarized charged black holes in a surprisingly simple system: an Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon field theory where the three fields couple non-minimally through a Horndeski vector-tensor term. In addition to hairy charged black holes, this system exhibits Horndeski-Reissner-Nordstrom solutions and ordinary Reissner-Nordstrom ones which bifurcate to the scalarized solutions. There exist also vector-tensor black hole solutions which possess central curvature singularities although their metric components are finite there, and also solutions with naked singularities producing regular metric components everywhere around them. We analyze the solutions and present their main features.

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@article{arxiv.2004.01681,
  title  = {Scalarized compact objects in a vector-tensor Horndeski gravity},
  author = {Y. Brihaye and Y. Verbin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01681},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 7 figures; some clarifications added, figures 1-2 modified, few references added; accepted for publication in PRD

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