Gödel solution in modified gravity

C. Furtado, T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, A. Yu. Petrov, and A. F. Santos
Phys. Rev. D 79, 124039 – Published 25 June 2009

Abstract

We consider the modified gravity whose action represents itself as a sum of the usual Einstein-Hilbert action and the gravitational Chern-Simons term and show that the Gödel metric solves the modified equations of motion, thus proving that the closed timelike curves whose presence is characteristic for the Gödel solution are not forbidden in the case of the Chern-Simons modified gravity as well.

  • Received 9 June 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124039

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. Furtado1,*, T. Mariz2,†, J. R. Nascimento1,‡, A. Yu. Petrov1,§, and A. F. Santos1,∥

  • 1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-970, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
  • 2Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, CEP 57072-970, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

  • *furtado@fisica.ufpb.br
  • tmariz@if.ufal.br
  • jroberto@fisica.ufpb.br
  • §petrov@fisica.ufpb.br
  • alesandro@fisica.ufpb.br

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Vol. 79, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2009

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