On the causality properties in non-local gravity theories
Abstract
It is well known that non-local theories of gravity have been a flourish arena of studies for many reasons, for instance, the UV incompleteness of General Relativity (GR). In this paper we check the consistency of ST-homogeneous G\"{o}del-type metrics within the non-local gravity framework. The non-local models considered here are ghost-free but not necessarily renormalizable since we focus on the classical solutions of the field equations. Furthermore, the non-locality is displayed in the action through transcendental entire functions of the d'Alembert operator that are mathematically represented by a power series of the -operator. We find two exactly solutions for the field equations correspondent to the degenerate () and hyperbolic () classes of ST-homogeneous G\"{o}del-type metrics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.01600,
title = {On the causality properties in non-local gravity theories},
author = {J. R. Nascimento and A. Yu. Petrov and P. J. Porfírio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01600},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
16 pages, version accepted to EPJ C