Causal structure of bigravity solutions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/015zbMATH Open1089.83020OpenAlexW1853391985WikidataQ58306998 ScholiaQ58306998MaRDI QIDQ3377906FDOQ3377906

Authors Diego Blas, Cédric Deffayet, J. Garriga 

Publication date 29 March 2006

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0508163

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We discuss the causal diagrams of static and spherically symmetric bigravity vacuum solutions, with interacting metrics $f$ and $g$. Such solutions can be classified into type I (or "non-diagonal") and type II (or "diagonal"). The general solution of type I is known, and leads to metrics $f$ and $g$ in the Schwarzschild-(Anti)de Sitter family. The two metrics are not always diagonalizable in the same coordinate system, and the light-cone structure of both metrics can be quite different. In spite of this, we find that causality is preserved, in the sense that closed time-like curves cannot be pieced together from geodesics of both metrics. We propose maximal extensions of Type I bigravity solutions, where geodesics of both metrics do not stop unless a curvature singularity is encountered. Such maximal extensions can contain several copies (or even an infinite number of them) of the maximally extended "individual" geometries associated to $f$ and $g$ separately. Generically, we find that the maximal extensions of bigravity solutions are not globally hyperbolic, even in cases when the individual geometries are. The general solution of type II has not been given in closed form. We discuss a subclass where $g$ is an arbitrary solution of Einstein's equations with a cosmological constant, and we find that in this case the only solutions are such that $fproptog$ (with trivial causal structure).

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