Approximately stealth black hole in higher-order scalar-tensor theories

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/03/050zbMATH Open1522.83159arXiv2212.13031OpenAlexW4360620504MaRDI QIDQ6100415FDOQ6100415

Authors: Antonio De Felice, Shinji Mukohyama, Kazufumi Takahashi 

Publication date: 12 May 2023

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a generic quadratic higher-order scalar-tensor theory with a scordatura term, which is expected to provide a consistent perturbative description of stealth solutions with a timelike scalar field profile. In the DHOST subclass, exactly stealth solutions are known to yield perturbations infinitely strongly coupled and thus cannot be trusted. Beyond DHOST theories with the scordatura term, such as in ghost condensation and U-DHOST, we show that stealth configurations cannot be realized as exact solutions but those theories instead admit approximately stealth solutions where the deviation from the exactly stealth configuration is controlled by the mass scale $M$ of derivative expansion. The approximately stealth solution is time-dependent, which can be interpreted as the black hole mass growth due to the accretion of the scalar field. From observed astrophysical black holes, we put an upper bound on $M$ as $hat{c}_{mD1}^{1/2}Mlesssim2imes10^{11}$ GeV, where $hat{c}_{mD1}$ is a dimensionless parameter of order unity that characterizes the scordatura term. As far as $M$ is sufficiently below the upper bound, the accretion is slow and the approximately stealth solutions can be considered as stealth at astrophysical scales for all practical purposes while perturbations are weakly coupled all the way up to the cutoff $M$ and the apparent ghost is as heavy as or heavier than $M$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13031

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsmodified gravityblack holes and black hole thermodynamics in GR and beyondGauss-Bonnet-Lovelock-Horndeski-Palatini etc. gravity theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32)

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