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Zero-Mass Rotating Spacetimes in Four-Dimensional Horava Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study a particular exact solution for rotating spacetimes in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity model without the ghost problem. We show that the zero-mass Kerr spacetime or the zero-mass Kerr-(A)dS spacetime in Einstein gravity is an exact solution in four-dimensional Horava for an arbitrary IR Lorentz-violation parameter lambda, but with an appropriate cosmological constant. In particular, for the zero-mass topological Kerr-AdS black hole solution with the hyperbolic horizon topology or the zero-mass Kerr-dS cosmological solution with the spherical horizon topology, there exist the ergosphere and the non-vanishing (positive) Hawking temperature, which imply the existence of negative mass black holes as well as positive mass spacetimes, by losing its mass from the zero-mass ones via the Hawking radiation or Penrose process in the ergosphere.

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@article{arxiv.2309.13859,
  title  = {Zero-Mass Rotating Spacetimes in Four-Dimensional Horava Gravity},
  author = {Mu-In Park and Hyung Won Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13859},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Title changed; Added footnotes No. 3, 5; Added comments in the final three paragraphs, "Note added", and references; 11 pages, 3 figures

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