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Static spherically symmetric solutions for conformal gravity in three dimensions are found. Black holes and wormholes are included within this class. Asymptotically the black holes are spacetimes of arbitrary constant curvature, and they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-28 Julio Oliva , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

We study a conformally coupled scalar-tensor theory with a quartic potential possessing local conformal symmetry up to a boundary term. We show that requiring the restoration of the full local conformal symmetry fixes the counterterms that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-25 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Mairym Busnego-Barrientos , Cristobal Corral , Nelson Merino

We report exact black hole solutions in asymptotically flat or (A)dS four-dimensional spacetime with a conformally coupled self-interacting scalar field in $f(R)$ gravity. We first consider the asymptotically flat model $f(R) = R -2\alpha…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-25 Thanasis Karakasis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang

Starting from a generalised Kaluza-Klein action including arbitrary Horndeski potentials, we establish integrability and compatibility conditions that solve the generic field equations for spherical symmetry. The resulting theories can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis , Mokhtar Hassaine , Nicolas Lecoeur

In a scalar-vector-gravity theory with the vector sector described by nonlinear electrodynamics, the field equations are integrated using the well-known gravitational decoupling method. The resulting spacetime corresponds to a spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Y. Gómez-Leyton , Z. Stuchlik , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

We consider f(R) gravity theories in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential. When the scalar field backreacts to the metric we find at large distances scalarized Schwarzschild-AdS and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Thanasis Karakasis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

We obtain exact black hole solutions for static and spherically symmetric sources in a Weyl conformal gauge theory of gravity. We consider a quadratic gravitational action built from the Weyl tensor within a dilation geometry. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Leandro A. Lessa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Manoel M. Ferreira

We consider an action for an abelian gauge field for which the density is given by a power of the Maxwell Lagrangian. In d spacetime dimensions this action is shown to enjoy the conformal invariance if the power is chosen as d/4. We take…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mokhtar Hassaine , Cristian Martinez

A class of exact static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a massless scalar field has been obtained in harmonic coordinates of the Minkowski space-time. For each value of the coupling constant $a$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Slava G. Turyshev

We present solutions of DHOST theories describing a rotating black hole embedded in an expanding universe. The solution is constructed by conformal transformation of a stealth Kerr(-de Sitter) black hole. The conformal factor depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-29 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis , Nicolas Lecoeur

We source the Lovelock gravity theories indexed by an integer k and fixed by requiring a unique anti-de Sitter vacuum with a self-interacting nonminimal scalar field in arbitrary dimension d. For each inequivalent Lovelock gravity theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Francisco Correa , Mokhtar Hassaine

We study the static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions for a non-minimally coupled multi-scalar theory. We find numerical solutions for values of the scalar fields when a certain constraint on the maximal charge is satisfied.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben M. Leith , Alex B. Nielsen

We analyze the construction of conformal theories of gravity in the realm of teleparallel theories. We first present a family of conformal theories which are quadratic in the torsion tensor and are constructed out of the tetrad field and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-19 J. W. Maluf , F. F. Faria

We briefly discuss explicit compact object solutions in higher-order scalar-tensor theories. We start by so-called stealth solutions, whose metric are General Relativity (GR) solutions, but accompanied by a non-trivial scalar field, in both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Athanasios Bakopoulos , Christos Charmousis , Nicolas Lecoeur

We study a subclass of Horndeski gravity which has both global conformal and shift symmetries. Global symmetries are characterised by the presence of a conserved current which has been shown to be of particular importance for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis , Mokhtar Hassaine , Nicolas Lecoeur

We consider a class of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theories in general dimensions and construct both static and dynamic charged black holes. We adopt the reverse engineering procedure and make a specific ansatz for the scalar field and then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Hyat Huang , Zhong-Ying Fan , H. Lü

Lovelock theory of gravity provides a tractable model to investigate the effects of higher-curvature terms in the context of AdS/CFT. Yielding second order, ghost-free field equations, this theory represents a minimal setup in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Mariano Chernicoff , Octavio Fierro , Gaston Giribet , Julio Oliva

A three dimensional black hole solution of Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant coupled to a conformal scalar field is given. The solution is static, circularly symmetric, asymptotically anti-de Sitter and nonperturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Cristian Martinez , Jorge Zanelli

In $D$ dimensional de Sitter space, a scalar field has an infinite tower of special tachyonic mass values at which enhanced shift symmetries appear. After modding out by these shift symmetries, these fields correspond to the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Samanta Saha

Born-Infeld black holes in the Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity, in the case of massless scalar field, have been recently obtained. The aim of the current paper is to study the effect from the inclusion of a potential for the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Daniela A. Georgieva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov