Analytic solutions in non-linear massive gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-11-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study spherically symmetric solutions in a covariant massive gravity model, which is a candidate for a ghost-free non-linear completion of the Fierz-Pauli theory. There is a branch of solutions that exhibits the Vainshtein mechanism, recovering General Relativity below a Vainshtein radius given by , where is the graviton mass and is the Schwarzschild radius of a matter source. Another branch of exact solutions exists, corresponding to Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes where the curvature scale of de Sitter space is proportional to the mass squared of the graviton.
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@article{arxiv.1103.4708,
title = {Analytic solutions in non-linear massive gravity},
author = {Kazuya Koyama and Gustavo Niz and Gianmassimo Tasinato},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4708},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, version accepted by PRL