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Towards nonsingular rotating compact object in ghost-free infinite derivative gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-11-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The vacuum solution of Einstein's theory of general relativity provides a rotating metric with a ring singularity, which is covered by the inner and outer horizons, and an ergo region. In this paper, we will discuss how ghost-free, quadratic curvature, Infinite Derivative Gravity (IDG) may resolve the ring singularity. In IDG the non-locality of the gravitational interaction can smear out the delta-Dirac source distribution by making the metric potential finite everywhere including at r=0r=0. We show that the same feature also holds for a rotating metric. We can resolve the ring singularity such that no horizons are formed in the linear regime by smearing out a delta-source distribution on a ring. We will also show that the Kerr-metric does not solve the full non-linear equations of motion of ghost-free quadratic curvature IDG.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08896,
  title  = {Towards nonsingular rotating compact object in ghost-free infinite derivative gravity},
  author = {Luca Buoninfante and Alan S. Cornell and Gerhard Harmsen and Alexey S. Koshelev and Gaetano Lambiase and João Marto and Anupam Mazumdar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08896},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted for publication in PRD

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