A Square Peg in a Circular Hole: Choosing the Right Ansatz for Isolated Black Holes in Generic Gravitational Theories [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03925


The metric of a spacetime can be greatly simplified if the spacetime is circular. We prove that in generic effective theories of gravity, the spacetime of a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat solution must be circular if the solution can be obtained perturbatively from a solution in the General Relativity limit. This result applies to a broad class of gravitational theories, that include arbitrary scalars and vectors in their light sector, so long as their non-standard kinetic terms and non-mininal couplings to gravity are treated perturbatively.

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Y. Xie, J. Zhang, H. Silva, et. al.
Tue, 9 Mar 21
7/68

Comments: 7+5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PRL