Galileon hairs of Dyson spheres, Vainshtein's coiffure and hirsute bubbles

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)148zbMATH Open1303.83004arXiv1106.4827WikidataQ62598795 ScholiaQ62598795MaRDI QIDQ489461FDOQ489461

Authors: Nemanja Kaloper, Antonio Padilla, Norihiro Tanahashi 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: We study the fields of spherically symmetric thin shell sources, a.k.a. Dyson spheres, in a {it fully nonlinear covariant} theory of gravity with the simplest galileon field. We integrate exactly all the field equations once, reducing them to first order nonlinear equations. For the simplest galileon, static solutions come on {it six} distinct branches. On one, a Dyson sphere surrounds itself with a galileon hair, which far away looks like a hair of any Brans-Dicke field. The hair changes below the Vainshtein scale, where the extra galileon terms dominate the minimal gradients of the field. Their hair looks more like a fuzz, because the galileon terms are suppressed by the derivative of the volume determinant. It shuts off the `hair bunching' over the `angular' 2-sphere. Hence the fuzz remains dilute even close to the source. This is really why the Vainshtein's suppression of the modifications of gravity works close to the source. On the other five branches, the static solutions are all {it singular} far from the source, and shuttered off from asymptotic infinity. One of them, however, is really the self-accelerating branch, and the singularity is removed by turning on time dependence. We give examples of regulated solutions, where the Dyson sphere explodes outward, and its self-accelerating side is nonsingular. These constructions may open channels for nonperturbative transitions between branches, which need to be addressed further to determine phenomenological viability of multi-branch gravities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4827

Recommendations

• Mixed Galileons and spherically symmetric solutions
• Classical stability of the galileon
• Halo models in modified gravity theories with self-accelerated expansion
• Galileon radiation from a spherical collapsing shell
• Spherically symmetric solutions of light Galileon

zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) General relativity (83C99) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99)

Cites Work

• Reciprocal Static Metrics and Scalar Fields in the General Theory of Relativity
• Duality and four-dimensional black holes
• On spherically symmetric string solutions in four dimensions
• Exact solutions in massive gravity
• 4D gravity on a brane in 5D Minkowski space
• Nonsingular Global String Compactifications
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Solving the hierarchy problem with noncompact extra dimensions
• Spherically symmetric spacetimes in massive gravity
• K-Mouflage Gravity
• Bi-galileon theory I: motivation and formulation
• Bi-Galileon theory. II: Phenomenology
• Shapes of non-Gaussianity in warm inflation

Cited In (8)

• Massive gravity: a general analysis
• Hairy rotating black holes in cubic Galileon theory
• Speeding upN-body simulations of modified gravity: chameleon screening models
• Massive gravity
• Classical duals, Legendre transforms and the Vainshtein mechanism
• Cleaning up the cosmological constant
• Boundary terms and junction conditions for generalized scalar-tensor theories
• Soft hairs on isolated horizon implanted by electromagnetic fields

This page was built for publication: Galileon hairs of Dyson spheres, Vainshtein's coiffure and hirsute bubbles

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q489461)