Stability of Black Holes and the Speed of Gravitational Waves within Self-Tuning Cosmological Models
Résumé
The gravitational wave event GW170817 together with its electromagnetic counterparts constrains the speed of gravity to be extremely close to that of light. We first show, on the example of an exact Schwarzschild–de Sitter solution of a specific beyond-Horndeski theory, that imposing the strict equality of these speeds in the asymptotic homogeneous Universe suffices to guarantee so even in the vicinity of the black hole, where large curvature and scalar-field gradients are present. We also find that the solution is stable in a range of the model parameters. We finally show that an infinite class of beyond-Horndeski models satisfying the equality of gravity and light speeds still provides an elegant self-tuning: the very large bare cosmological constant entering the Lagrangian is almost perfectly counterbalanced by the energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field, yielding a tiny observable effective cosmological constant.
Mots clés
curvature
scalar tensor
gravitational radiation: direct detection
cosmological model
electromagnetic field: production
cosmological constant
gravitation: model
gravitational radiation: emission
gravitational radiation
field theory: scalar
tensor: energy-momentum
solution: stability
black hole: stability
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