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External stability for Spherically Symmetric Solutions in Lorentz Breaking Massive Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-20 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss spherically symmetric solutions for point-like sources in Lorentz-breaking massive gravity theories. This analysis is valid for St\"uckelberg's effective field theory formulation, for Lorentz Breaking Massive Bigravity and general extensions of gravity leading to an extra term Srγ-Sr^{\gamma} added to the Newtonian potential. The approach consists in analyzing the stability of the geodesic equations, at the first order (deviation equation). The main result is a strong constrain in the space of parameters of the theories. This motivates higher order analysis of geodesic perturbations in order to understand if a class of spherically symmetric Lorentz-breaking massive gravity solutions, for self-gravitating systems, exists. Stable and phenomenologically acceptable solutions are discussed in the no-trivial case S0S\neq 0.

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@article{arxiv.1407.4840,
  title  = {External stability for Spherically Symmetric Solutions in Lorentz Breaking Massive Gravity},
  author = {Andrea Addazi and Salvatore Capozziello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4840},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pg, 1 figure, to appear in Int. Jou. Theor. Phys

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