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arxiv: 1407.4840 · v3 · pith:LC5NHCBRnew · submitted 2014-07-17 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE· hep-th

External stability for Spherically Symmetric Solutions in Lorentz Breaking Massive Gravity

classification 🌀 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th
keywords gravitymassivesolutionsordersphericallysymmetricanalysisbreaking
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We discuss spherically symmetric solutions for point-like sources in Lorentz-breaking massive gravity theories. This analysis is valid for St\"uckelberg's effective field theory formulation, for Lorentz Breaking Massive Bigravity and general extensions of gravity leading to an extra term $-Sr^{\gamma}$ added to the Newtonian potential. The approach consists in analyzing the stability of the geodesic equations, at the first order (deviation equation). The main result is a strong constrain in the space of parameters of the theories. This motivates higher order analysis of geodesic perturbations in order to understand if a class of spherically symmetric Lorentz-breaking massive gravity solutions, for self-gravitating systems, exists. Stable and phenomenologically acceptable solutions are discussed in the no-trivial case $S\neq 0$.

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