Spherically symmetric solution in higher-dimensional teleparallel equivalent of general relativity

A theory of(N+1)-dimensional gravity is developed on the basis of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity(TEGR).The fundamental gravitational field variables are the(N+1)-dimensional vector fields,defined globally on a manifold M,and the gravitational field is attributed to the torsion.The form of Lagrangian density is quadratic in torsion tensor.We then give an exact five-dimensional spherically symmetric solution(Schwarzschild(4+1)-dimensions).Finally,we calculate energy and spatial momentum using gravitational energy-momentum tensor and superpotential 2-form.     

五维时空中度规的计算

在四维R+R2引力理论中给出了Wheeler-Dewitt(W-D)方程,通过分离变量法得到了W-D方程的解.利用Kaluza-Klein理论将Robertson-Walker度规推广到五维时空,结合时空中的场方程得到宇宙项与能量之间的关系.     

Teleparallel equivalent theory of (1+1)-dimensional gravity

A theory of (1+1)-dimensional gravity is constructed on the basis of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity.The fundamental field variables are the tetrad fields e i μ and the gravity is attributed to the torsion.A dilatonic spherically symmetric exact solution of the gravitational field equations characterized by two parameters M and Q is derived.The energy associated with this solution is calculated using the two-dimensional gravitational energy-momentum formula.     

Hydrodynamics in 5-Dimensional Cosmological Special Relativity

The dynamics of a perfect fluid is studied in 5-dimensional special relativity, a framework which can be considered the 5-d generalization of cosmological special relativity as well as the flat specialization of 5-d brane world theory. This picture, as described in an earlier paper, directly includes a particle production mechanism. Here it is showed that the source of particle production vanishes if the fluid is isentropic. Moreover it is showed that the hydrodynamical equations can be interpreted in terms of a scale factor, giving rise to a set of equations which simulate in a sense Friedmann cosmology.     

Bianchi identities and the automatic conservation of energy-momentum and angular momentum in general-relativistic field theories

Automatic conservation of energy-momentum and angular momentum is guaranteed in a gravitational theory if, via the field equations, the conservation laws for the material currents are reduced to the contracted Bianchi identities. We first execute an irreducible decomposition of the Bianchi identities in a Riemann-Cartan space-time. Then, starting from a Riemannian space-time with or without torsion, we determine those gravitational theories which have automatic conservation: general relativity and the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory, both with cosmological constant, and the nonviable pseudoscalar model. The Poincaré gauge theory of gravity, like gauge theories of internal groups, has no automatic conservation in the sense defined above. This does not lead to any difficulties in principle. Analogies to 3-dimensional continuum mechanics are stressed throughout the article.     

Cosmological applications in Kaluzaben Klein theory

The field equations of Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory have been applied in the domain of cosmology. These equations are solved for a flat universe by taking the gravitational and the cosmological constants as a function of time t. We use Taylor's expansion of cosmological function, Λ(t), up to the first order of the time t. The cosmological parameters are calculated and some cosmological problems are discussed.     

Exact solutions inU 4 gravity. I. The ansatz for self double dual curvature

We investigate the energy-momentum and spin field equations of gravity theory on a Riemann-Cartan space-time (including metric and torsion,U ₄-manifold). The structure of the rather complicated nonlinear differential equations of second order is made considerably easier to survey by decomposing curvature into its self and anti-self double dual parts. This leads to an obvious ansatz for the self double dual curvature, whereby the field equations are reduced to Einstein's equations with cosmological term. To solve the double dual ansatz, we choose proper variables adopted to its double duality, and perform a (3+1)-decomposition of exterior calculus. We examine these equations further on a Kerr background with cosmological constant for the Riemannian geometry.     

A Modified Gravity Theory: Null Aether

General quantum gravity arguments predict that Lorentz symmetry might not hold exactly in nature. This has motivated much interest in Lorentz breaking gravity theories recently. Among such models are vector-tensor theories with preferred direction established at every point of spacetime by a fixed-norm vector field. The dynamical vector field defined in this way is referred to as the "aether". In this paper, we put forward the idea of a null aether field and introduce, for the first time, the Null Aether Theory(NAT) — a vector-tensor theory. We first study the Newtonian limit of this theory and then construct exact spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the theory in four dimensions, which contain Vaidya-type non-static solutions and static Schwarzschild-(A)dS type solutions, Reissner-Nordstr?m-(A)dS type solutions and solutions of conformal gravity as special cases. Afterwards, we study the cosmological solutions in NAT:We find some exact solutions with perfect fluid distribution for spatially flat FLRW metric and null aether propagating along the x direction. We observe that there are solutions in which the universe has big-bang singularity and null field diminishes asymptotically. We also study exact gravitational wave solutions — AdS-plane waves and pp-waves — in this theory in any dimension D ≥ 3. Assuming the Kerr-Schild-Kundt class of metrics for such solutions, we show that the full field equations of the theory are reduced to two, in general coupled, differential equations when the background metric assumes the maximally symmetric form. The main conclusion of these computations is that the spin-0 aether field acquires a "mass" determined by the cosmological constant of the background spacetime and the Lagrange multiplier given in the theory.     

Vanishing of the cosmological constant in non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein theories

We present a new approach to the unification of gravity and non-Abelian gauge fields in the framework of Kaluza-Klein theory. It consists in introducing a new connection on the (n + 4)-dimensional manifoldP (metrized principal fiber bundle). This connection is metrical, but with nonvanishing torsion. An enormous cosmological term in the Einstein equations vanishes due to this connection. The new connection simultaneously cancels Planck's mass term in the Dirac equation for the five-dimensional case. The usual interpretation of geodesic equations is still valid.     

Early Universe with Variable Cosmological Constants in Higher Dimensional Space Time

The field equations with variable cosmological and gravitational constants are consider in the presence of perfect fluid for Kaluza-Klein type cosmological model. The exact solutions of the field equations are obtained by using the gamma law equation of state p=(γ−1)ρ in which the parameter γ depends on scale factor R. The functional form of γ(R) is used to analyze a wide range of cosmological solution at early universe for two phases in cosmic history: inflationary phase and radiation dominated phase. The corresponding physical interpretation of cosmological solution are also discussed in the framework of higher dimensional space time.     

Particle Production in 5-Dimensional Cosmological Relativity

The 5-dimensional extension of cosmological special and general relativity is considered. In this framework it is possible to define a 5-dimensional perfect fluid stress-energy tensor and to unify the equations of perfect hydrodynamics in a single 5-dimensional tensor conservation law. This picture in principle permits to interpret particle production phenomena as cosmological effects, in the spirit of open system cosmology.     

Cosmological compactification in Kaluza-Klein model and time-dependent cosmological term

Einstein's equations for the generalized (4+D)-dimensional Robertson-Walker model are solved taking the conformally invariant action for the matter field. Compactification of this model is discussed and the compactification time/compactification mass scale for different values ofD is calculated. The resulting 4-dimensional action for gravity is obtained. It is found that a time-dependent cosmological constant is induced which is very large when the cosmic time is small and very small when the cosmic time is large.     

Five-dimensional teleparallel theory equivalent to general relativity, the axially symmetric solution, energy and spatial momentum

A theory of (4+1)-dimensional gravity is developed on the basis of the teleparallel theory equivalent to general relativity. The fundamental gravitational field variables are the five-dimensional vector fields (pentad), defined globally on a manifold M, and gravity is attributed to the torsion. The Lagrangian density is quadratic in the torsion tensor. We then give the exact five-dimensional solution. The solution is a generalization of the familiar Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions of the four-dimensional teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. We also use the definition of the gravitational energy to calculate the energy and the spatial momentum.     

Doubly coupled matter fields in massive bigravity

In the context of massive(bi-)gravity,non-minimal matter couplings have been proposed.These couplings are special in the sense that they are free of the Boulware-Deser ghost below the strong coupling scale and can be used consistently as an effective field theory.Furthermore,they enrich the phenomenology of massive gravity.We consider these couplings in the framework of bimetric gravity and study the cosmological implications for background and linear tensor,vector,and scalar Previous works have investigated special branches of solutions.Here we perform a complete perturbation analysis for the general background equations of motion,completing previous analyses.     

Renormalization of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time and Renormalization Group Equations

The structure of quantum field theory renormalization in curved space-time is investigated. The equations allowing us to investigate the behaviour of vacuum energy and vertex functions in the limit of small distances in the external gravitational field are established. The behaviour of effective charges corresponding to the parameters of nonminimal coupling of the matter with the gravitational field is studied and the conditions under which asymptotically free theories become asymptotically conformally invariant are found. The examples of asymptotically conformally invariant theories are given. On the basis of a direct solution of renormalization group equations the effective potential in the external gravitational field and the effective action in the gravity with the high derivatives are obtained. The expression for the cosmological constant in terms of R²-gravity Lagrangian parameters is given which does not contradict the observable data. Renormalization and renormalization group equations for the theory in curved space-time with torsion are investigated.     

A magnetic-monopole-type solution in the Poincaré gauge field theory of gravity

In a microscopical theory of gravity the coupling of internal gauge degrees of freedom to those of space-time are studied. A magnetic-monopole-type solution for the coupledSO(3) Yang-Mills-Higgs system in a space-time with curvature and torsion is derived. The coupling constant of the Lorentz gauge bosons can be related directly to the (constant) Higgs field and to the cosmological constant which is induced by the quadratic curvature terms in the Lagrangian. This reveals a new interpretation of the parameters entering the general Lagrangian density of the Poincaré gauge field theory (PG).     

No black-hole theorem in three-dimensional gravity

A common property of known black-hole solutions in (2+1)-dimensional gravity is that they require a negative cosmological constant. To explain this, it is shown in this Letter that a (2+1)-dimensional gravity theory which satisfies the dominant energy condition forbids the existence of a black hole.     

Accelerating Universe with spacetime torsion but without dark matter and dark energy

It is shown that cosmological equations for homogeneous isotropic models deduced in the framework of the Poincaré gauge theory of gravity by certain restrictions on indefinite parameters of gravitational Lagrangian take at asymptotics the same form as cosmological equations of general relativity theory for ΛCDM-model. Terms related to dark matter and dark energy in cosmological equations of standard theory for ΛCDM-model are connected in considered theory with the change of gravitational interaction provoked by spacetime torsion.     

Density-metric unimodular gravity: Vacuum maximal symmetry

We have investigated the vacuum maximally symmetric solutions of recently proposed density-metric unimodular gravity theory. The results are widely different from inflationary scenario. The exponential dependence on time in deSitter space is substituted by a power law. Open space–times with non-zero cosmological constant are excluded.