Unattainable extended spacetime regions in conformal gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2018)013zbMATH Open1388.83009arXiv1711.07198OpenAlexW3099113121WikidataQ130156916 ScholiaQ130156916MaRDI QIDQ1750863FDOQ1750863

Leonardo Modesto, Cosimo Bambi, Hrishikesh Chakrabarty, Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Janis-Newman-Winicour metric is a solution of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a real massless scalar field. The $gamma$-metric is instead a vacuum solution of Einstein's gravity. These spacetimes have no horizon and possess a naked singularity at a finite value of the radial coordinate, where curvature invariants diverge and the spacetimes are geodetically incomplete. In this paper, we reconsider these solutions in the framework of conformal gravity and we show that it is possible to solve the spacetime singularities with a suitable choice of the conformal factor. Now curvature invariants remain finite over the whole spacetime. Massive particles never reach the previous singular surface and massless particles can never do it with a finite value of their affine parameter. Our results support the conjecture according to which conformal gravity can fix the singularity problem that plagues Einstein's gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07198

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityspacetime singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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