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Slowly rotating black hole solutions in Horndeski gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-12-02 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study black hole solutions at first order in the Hartle-Thorne slow-rotation approximation in Horndeski gravity theories. We derive the equations of motion including also cases where the scalar depends linearly on time. In the Hartle-Thorne formalism, all first-order rotational corrections are described by a single frame-dragging function. We show that the frame-dragging function is exactly the same as in general relativity for all known black hole solutions in shift symmetric Horndeski theories, with the exception of theories with a linear coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. Our results extend previous no-hair theorems for a broad class of Horndeski gravity theories.

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@article{arxiv.1508.03044,
  title  = {Slowly rotating black hole solutions in Horndeski gravity},
  author = {Andrea Maselli and Hector O. Silva and Masato Minamitsuji and Emanuele Berti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03044},
  year   = {2015}
}

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