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We consider gauge invariant cosmological perturbations in UV-modified, z=3 Horava gravity with one scalar matter field, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity theory without the ghost problem in four dimensions. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Sunyoung Shin , Mu-In Park

We consider slowly rotating, stationary, axisymmetric black holes in the infrared limit of Horava-Lifshitz gravity. We show that such solutions do not exist, provided that they are regular everywhere apart from the central singularity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Enrico Barausse , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate the static solutions with rotational symmetry in the nonprojectable Ho\v rava theory in \(2+1\) dimensions. We consider all inequivalent terms of the effective theory, including the cosmological constant. We find two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Jorge Bellorín , Claudio Bórquez , Byron Droguett

In this article we study conjectures regarding normalized volume and boundedness of singularities. We focus on singularities with a torus action of complexity 1, threefold singularities, and hypersurface singularities. Given a real value…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Yuchen Liu , Joaquín Moraga , Hendrik Süß

The 3-dimensional Heisenberg group can be equipped with three different types of left-invariant Lorentzian metric, according to whether the center of the Lie algebra is spacelike, timelike or null. Using the second of these types, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 David Brander , Shimpei Kobayashi

We study cosmological vector and tensor perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz gravity, adopting the most general Sotiriou-Visser-Weinfurtner generalization without the detailed balance but with projectability condition. After deriving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-02 Anzhong Wang

Cuscuton Gravity is characterized as a scalar field that can be added to general relativity without introducing any new dynamical degrees of freedom on a cosmological background. Yet, it modifies gravity such that spacetime singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Amir Dehghani , Ghazal Geshnizjani , Jerome Quintin

We consider the recently proposed non-relativistic Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz four-dimensional theory of gravity. We study a particular limit of the theory which admits flat Minkowski vacuum and we discuss thoroughly the quadratic fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Alex Kehagias , Konstadinos Sfetsos

We prove that the surface gravity of a compact non-degenerate Cauchy horizon in a smooth vacuum spacetime, can be normalized to a non-zero constant. This result, combined with a recent result by Oliver Petersen and Istv\'an R\'acz, end up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Martín Reiris , Ignacio Bustamante

Stability of the Einstein static universe versus the linear scalar, vector and tensor perturbations is investigated in the context of deformed Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz cosmology inspired by entropic force scenario. A general stability condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Y. Heydarzade , M. Khodadi , F. Darabi

We study the space-time geometry generated by coupling a free scalar field with a non-canonical kinetic term to General Relativity in $(2+1)$ dimensions. After identifying a family of scalar Lagrangians that yield exact analytical solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Roberto V. Maluf , Gerardo Mora-Pérez , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Horava and Melby-Thompson recently proposed a new version of the Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravity, in which the spin-0 graviton is eliminated by introducing a Newtonian pre-potential $\phi$ and a local U(1) gauge field $A$. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Anzhong Wang , Yumei Wu

How do the global properties of a Lorentzian manifold change when endowed with a vector field? This interesting question is tackled in this paper within the framework of Einstein-Aether (EA) theory which has the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , V. H. Satheeshkumar

We study different aspects of the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz inspired Bianchi-II cosmology and its relations with the mixmaster universe model. First, we present exact solutions for a toy model, where only the cubic in spatial curvature terms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-29 Leonardo Giani , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

We study the condition that the theory is unitary and stable in three-dimensional gravity with most general quadratic curvature, Lorentz-Chern-Simons and cosmological terms. We provide the complete classification of the unitary theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Nobuyoshi Ohta

Asymptotic safety (an ultraviolet fixed point with finite-dimensional critical surface) offers the possibility that a predictive theory of quantum gravity can be obtained from the quantization of classical general relativity. However, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-27 Roberto Casadio , Stephen D. H. Hsu , Behrouz Mirza

Recently, Ho$\breve{r}$ava proposed a non-relativistic renormalizable theory of gravity which is essentially a field theoretic model for a UV complete theory of gravity and reduces to Einstein gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Ritabrata biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

We investigate the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of an incoherent dust cloud by considering a LTB type space-time in third order Lovelock Gravity without cosmological constant, and give three families of LTB-like solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Kang Zhou , Zhan-Ying Yang , De-Cheng Zou , Rui-Hong Yue

We consider a class of spherically symmetric spacetime to obtain some interesting solutions in F(R) gravity without matter field (pure gravity). We investigate the geometry of the solutions and find that there is an essential singularity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-03 S. H. Hendi , B. Eslam Panah , C. Corda

We study the constraints coming from local causality requirement in various $2+1$ dimensional dynamical theories of gravity. In topologically massive gravity, with a single parity non-invariant massive degree of freedom, and in new massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-16 Jose D. Edelstein , Gaston Giribet , Carolina Gomez , Ercan Kilicarslan , Matias Leoni , Bayram Tekin