Junction Conditions and Gravitational Collapse in Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity

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Autores principales: Debnath, Debanjan, Badal, Anant, Bhattacharya, Kaushik
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author Debnath, Debanjan
Badal, Anant
Bhattacharya, Kaushik
author_facet Debnath, Debanjan
Badal, Anant
Bhattacharya, Kaushik
contents We formulate the junction conditions for Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG/MOG), proposed by J.~W.~Moffat. Using these conditions, the theory of gravitational collapse is constructed. In the collapsing process, an interior Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime with baryonic matter and dark energy is matched with an exterior static, spherically symmetric Reissner--Nordström (RN)-like spacetime through a shell that carries STVG-charge. Starting from the standard STVG action, we derive the junction conditions across a boundary that relate the values of the various field quantities and their derivatives across the matching surface. Using the matching conditions and the nature of the collapsing shell, it is shown that a gravitational collapse can proceed in the present situation, and one can have RN-like horizon formation in finite proper time. We present two simplified models of gravitational collapse in this article: one ends up as an extremal RN-like black hole, and the other tends to collapse towards a sub-extremal RN-like black hole, as observed by an asymptotic observer at an infinite distance away from the collapsing system.
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spellingShingle Junction Conditions and Gravitational Collapse in Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity
Debnath, Debanjan
Badal, Anant
Bhattacharya, Kaushik
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We formulate the junction conditions for Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG/MOG), proposed by J.~W.~Moffat. Using these conditions, the theory of gravitational collapse is constructed. In the collapsing process, an interior Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime with baryonic matter and dark energy is matched with an exterior static, spherically symmetric Reissner--Nordström (RN)-like spacetime through a shell that carries STVG-charge. Starting from the standard STVG action, we derive the junction conditions across a boundary that relate the values of the various field quantities and their derivatives across the matching surface. Using the matching conditions and the nature of the collapsing shell, it is shown that a gravitational collapse can proceed in the present situation, and one can have RN-like horizon formation in finite proper time. We present two simplified models of gravitational collapse in this article: one ends up as an extremal RN-like black hole, and the other tends to collapse towards a sub-extremal RN-like black hole, as observed by an asymptotic observer at an infinite distance away from the collapsing system.
title Junction Conditions and Gravitational Collapse in Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17615