Stability of closed timelike curves in a Galileon model

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2012)009MaRDI QIDQ2340771zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jarah Evslin

Publication date 20 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1349

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMspacetime singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Recently Burrage, de Rham, Heisenberg and Tolley have constructed eternal, classical solutions with closed timelike curves (CTCs) in a Galileon model coupled to an auxiliary scalar field. These theories contain at least two distinct metrics and, in configurations with CTCs, two distinct notions of locality. As usual, globally CTCs lead to pathologies including nonlocal constraints on the initial Cauchy data. Locally, with respect to the gravitational metric, we use a WKB approximation to explicitly construct small, short-wavelength perturbations without imposing the nonlocal constraints and observe that these perturbations do not grow and so do not lead to an instability.

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