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Towards rotating non-circular black holes in string-inspired gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-10-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study stationary slowly rotating black holes, up to quadratic order in the spin angular momentum, in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity and shift symmetric Einstein scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity, as models of string-inspired gravities. These gravity theories modify general relativity by introducing dynamical scalar fields coupled with curvature invariants. We show that the linear time dependence of the scalar fields is allowed from the stationarity of the effective stress energy tensors. However, these time dependent scalar fields yield singular behavior of the metric functions at the black hole horizons, or they are incompatible with the stationarity of the spacetimes. Thus, these gravity theories admit only known solutions as regular stationary solutions. Our results suggest the non-existence of rotating non-circular black holes in these gravity theories.

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@article{arxiv.2008.04003,
  title  = {Towards rotating non-circular black holes in string-inspired gravity},
  author = {Keisuke Nakashi and Masashi Kimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04003},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

23 pages, v2: minor revisions, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

R2 v1 2026-06-23T17:44:42.125Z