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Title: Static spherically symmetric solutions to modified Horava-Lifshitz gravity with a projectability condition

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

In this paper we seek static spherically symmetric solutions of Horava-Lifshitz-like gravity with the projectability condition. We consider the most general form of gravity action without detailed balance, and require the spacetime metric to respect the projectability condition. We find that for any value of {lambda}, the solutions of topology RxM{sub 3} may exist, where R is the time direction and M{sub 3} is a three-dimensional maximally symmetric space depending on the value of cosmological constant and the potential of the action. Besides, in the UV region where {lambda}{ne}1, we find Minkowski or de Sitter spacetime as the solution, while in the IR region where {lambda}=1, we prove that (dS-)Schwarzschild solution is the only nontrivial solution. We also notice that the other static spherically symmetric solutions found in the literature do not satisfy the projectability condition and are not the solutions we get. Our study shows that in Horava-Lifshitz gravity with the projectability condition, there is no novel correction to Einstein's general relativity in solar system tests.

OSTI ID:
21409269
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043515; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English