English

Gravitational measurements in higher dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-05-04 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We attempt to study three significant tests of general relativity in higher dimensions both in commutative and non-commutative spaces. In the context of non-commutative geometry, we will consider a solution of the Einstein equation in higher dimensions with a source given by a static, spherically symmetric Gaussian distribution of mass. The resulting metric would describe a regular or curvature singularity free black hole in higher dimensions. The metric should smoothly interpolate between Schwarzschild geometry at large distance and de-Sitter spacetime at short distance. We will consider gravitational redshift, lensing, and time delay in each sector. It will be shown that, compared to the four-dimensional spacetime, there can be significant modifications due to the presence of extra dimensions and the non-commutative corrected black holes. Finally, we shall attempt to obtain a lower bound on the size of the extra dimensions and on the mass needed to form a black hole in different dimensions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1909.07733,
  title  = {Gravitational measurements in higher dimensions},
  author = {Davood Mahdavian Yekta and S. A. Alavi and Majid Karimabadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.07733},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

22 pages, 10 figures and 2 tables, Accepted version

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