Perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes in Chern-Simons modified gravity

Nicolás Yunes and Carlos F. Sopuerta
Phys. Rev. D 77, 064007 – Published 6 March 2008

Abstract

We study perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole in Chern-Simons modified gravity. We begin by showing that Birkhoff’s theorem holds for a wide family of Chern-Simons coupling functions, a scalar field present in the theory that controls the strength of the Chern-Simons correction to the Einstein-Hilbert action. After decomposing the perturbations in spherical harmonics, we study the linearized modified field equations and find that axial and polar modes are coupled, in contrast to general relativity. The divergence of the modified equations leads to the Pontryagin constraint, which forces the vanishing of the Cunningham-Price-Moncrief master function associated with axial modes. We analyze the structure of these equations and find that the appearance of the Pontryagin constraint yields an overconstrained system that does not allow for generic black hole oscillations. We illustrate this situation by studying the case characterized by a canonical choice of the coupling function and pure-parity perturbative modes. We end with a discussion of how to extend Chern-Simons modified gravity to bypass the Pontryagin constraint and the suppression of perturbations.

  • Received 14 December 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.064007

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Nicolás Yunes1 and Carlos F. Sopuerta2,3,4

  • 1Center for Gravitational Wave Physics and Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
  • 3Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (CSIC), Facultat de Ciències, Campus UAB, Torre C5 parells, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
  • 4Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Ed. Nexus-201, Gran Capità 2-4, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain

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Vol. 77, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2008

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