44 research outputs found

    The Black Hole Radiation in Massive Gravity

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    We apply the Bogoliubov transformations in order to connect two different vacuums, one~located at past infinity and another located at future infinity around a black hole inside the scenario of the nonlinear theory of massive gravity. The presence of the extra degrees of freedom changes the behavior of the logarithmic singularity and, as a consequence, the relation between the two Bogoliubov coefficients. This has an effect on the number of particles, or equivalently, on the black hole temperature perceived by observers defining the time arbitrarily.Comment: Title changed in order to match the published version. Version focused on the particle creation process of black-hole in massive gravit

    The graviton Higgs mechanism

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    The Higgs mechanism at the graviton level formulated as a Vainshtein mechanism in time domains implies that the extra-degrees of freedom become relevant depending on the direction of time (frame of reference) with respect to the preferred time direction (preferred frame) defined by the St\"uckelberg function T0(r,t)T_0(r,t) which contains the information of the extra-degrees of freedom of the theory. In this manuscript, I make the general definition of the Higgs mechanism by analyzing the gauge symmetries of the action and the general form of the vacuum solutions for the graviton field. In general, the symmetry generators depending explicitly on the St\"uckelberg fields are broken at the vacuum level. These broken generators, define the number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons which will be eating up by the dynamical metric in order to become massive.Comment: 5 pages, Version published in Europhysics Letters (EPL

    On the apparent loss of predictability inside the de-Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley non-linear formulation of massive gravity: The Hawking radiation effect

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    I explain in a simple and compact form the origin of the apparent loss of predictability inside the dRGT non-linear formulation of massive gravity. This apparent pathology was first reported by Kodama and the author when the stability of the Schwarzschild de-Sitter (S-dS) black-hole in dRGT was analyzed. If we study the motion of a massive test particle around the S-dS solution, we find that the total energy is not conserved in the usual sense. The conserved quantity associated with time appears as a combination of the total energy and a velocity-dependent term. If the equations of motion are written in terms of this conserved quantity, then the three-dimensional motion in dRGT will not differ with respect to the same situation of Einstein gravity (GR). The differences with respect to GR will appear whenever we have a dynamical situation. I explore the Hawking radiation as an example where we can find differences between GR and dRGT.Comment: Published versio
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