Berwald spacetimes and very special relativity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.98.084062MaRDI QIDQ6300809zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrea Fuster, Cornelia Pabst, Christian Pfeifer

Publication date 25 April 2018

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Special relativity (83A05) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: In this work we study Berwald spacetimes and their vacuum dynamics, where the latter are based on a Finsler generalization of the Einstein's equations derived from an action on the unit tangent bundle. In particular, we consider a specific class of spacetimes which are non-flat generalizations of the very special relativity (VSR) line element, to which we refer as very general relativity (VGR). We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the VGR line element to be of Berwald type. We present two novel examples with the corresponding vacuum field equations: a Finslerian generalization of vanishing scalar invariant (VSI) spacetimes in Einstein's gravity as well as the most general homogeneous and isotropic VGR spacetime.

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