Partially massless gravitons do not destroy general relativity black holes
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- PhysRevD.87.124024
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Recent nonlinear completions of Fierz-Pauli theory for a massive spin-2 field include nonlinear massive gravity and bimetric theories. The spectrum of black-hole solutions in these theories is rich and comprises the same vacuum solutions of Einstein's gravity enlarged to include a cosmological constant. It was recently shown that Schwarzschild (de Sitter) black holes in these theories are generically unstable against spherical perturbations. Here we show that a notable exception is partially massless gravity, where the mass of the graviton is fixed in terms of the cosmological constant by mu(2) = 2 Lambda/3 and a new gauge invariance emerges. We find that general relativity black holes are stable in this limit. Remarkably, the spectrum of massive gravitational perturbations is isospectral.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 124024 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 12 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISSN | 1550-7998 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Jun 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
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