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Non-Einstein source effects in massive gravity

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Brandeis University
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, Davis

Abstract

We exhibit novel effects (absent in GR) of sources in massive gravity. First, we show that removing its ghost mode forces a field-current identity: The metric's trace is locally proportional to that of its stress tensor; a point source implies a metric singularity enhanced by the square of the graviton's range. Second, exterior solutions acquire spatial stress hair—their metric components depend on the interior T_(ij). Also, in contrast to naïve expectations, the Newtonian potential of a source is now determined by both its spatial stress and mass. Our explicit results are obtained at linear, Fierz–Pauli, level but qualitatively persist nonlinearly.

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© 2014 American Physical Society. Received 24 October 2013; published 13 January 2014. We thank Bayram Tekin for useful discussions, and A. W. thanks the Perimeter Institute for hospitality while this research was completed. S. D. was supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1064302 and DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-164 92ER40701.

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44608
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Funding

NSF
PHY-1064302
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-FG02-164 92ER40701

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