Partially massless gravitons do not destroy general relativity black holes

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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 languageEnglish
Article number124024
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume87
Issue number12
Number of pages5
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2013
Externally publishedYes

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