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Stars and (Furry) Black Holes in Lorentz Breaking Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-10 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the exact spherically symmetric solutions in a class of Lorentz-breaking massive gravity theories, using the effective-theory approach where the graviton mass is generated by the interaction with a suitable set of Stuckelberg fields. We find explicitly the exact black hole solutions which generalizes the familiar Schwarzschild one, which shows a non-analytic hair in the form of a power-like term r^\gamma. For realistic self-gravitating bodies, we find interesting features, linked to the effective violation of the Gauss law: i) the total gravitational mass appearing in the standard 1/r term gets a multiplicative renormalization proportional to the area of the body itself; ii) the magnitude of the power-like hairy correction is also linked to size of the body. The novel features can be ascribed to presence of the goldstones fluid turned on by matter inside the body; its equation of state approaching that of dark energy near the center. The goldstones fluid also changes the matter equilibrium pressure, leading to an upper limit for the graviton mass, m <~ 10^-28 - 10^29 eV, derived from the largest stable gravitational bound states in the Universe.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4773,
  title  = {Stars and (Furry) Black Holes in Lorentz Breaking Massive Gravity},
  author = {Denis Comelli and Fabrizio Nesti and Luigi Pilo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4773},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, 4 Figures. Final version to be published in PRD. Typos corrected, comments added