Massless Rotating Spacetimes in Four-Dimensional Horava Gravity

Abstract

We study a particular exact solution for rotating spacetimes in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity model without the ghost problem. We show that the massless Kerr spacetime or the massless Kerr-(A)dS spacetime in Einstein gravity is an exact solution in four-dimensional Horava for an arbitrary IR Lorentz-violation parameter lambda, but with an appropriate cosmological constant. In particular, for the massless topological Kerr-AdS black hole solution with the hyperbolic horizon topology or the massless Kerr-dS cosmological solution with the spherical horizon topology, there exist the ergosphere and the non-vanishing Hawking temperature, which imply the existence of negative mass black holes as well as positive mass spacetimes, by losing its mass from the massless ones via the Hawking radiation or Penrose process in the ergosphere.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure