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Author Bazeia, D.; Losano, L.; Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.
Title Geodesically complete BTZ-type solutions of 2+1 Born-Infeld gravity Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 34 Issue 4 Pages 045006 - 21pp
Keywords Born-Infeld gravity; BTZ; wormholes; nonsingular solutions; geodesic completeness
Abstract We study Born-Infeld gravity coupled to a static, non-rotating electric field in 2 + 1 dimensions and find exact analytical solutions. Two families of such solutions represent geodesically complete, and hence nonsingular, spacetimes. Another family represents a point-like charge with a singularity at the center. Despite the absence of rotation, these solutions resemble the charged, rotating BTZ solution of general relativity but with a richer structure in terms of horizons. The nonsingular character of the first two families turn out to be attached to the emergence of a wormhole structure on their innermost region. This seems to be a generic prediction of extensions of general relativity formulated in metric-affine (or Palatini) spaces, where metric and connection are regarded as independent degrees of freedom.
Address [Bazeia, D.; Losano, L.; Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Fed Paraiba, Dept Fis, BR-58051900 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, Email: bazeia@fisica.ufpb.br;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000395398800002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3013
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Author Alfonso, V.I.; Bejarano, C.; Beltran Jimenez, J.; Olmo, G.J.; Orazi, E.
Title The trivial role of torsion in projective invariant theories of gravity with non-minimally coupled matter fields Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 34 Issue 23 Pages 235003 - 20pp
Keywords modified gravity; metric-affine theories; torsion; non-minimal couplings
Abstract We study a large family of metric-affine theories with a projective symmetry, including non-minimally coupled matter fields which respect this invariance. The symmetry is straightforwardly realised by imposing that the connection only enters through the symmetric part of the Ricci tensor, even in the matter sector. We leave the connection completely free (including torsion), and obtain its general solution as the Levi-Civita connection of an auxiliary metric, showing that the torsion only appears as a projective mode. This result justifies the widely used condition of setting vanishing torsion in these theories as a simple gauge choice. We apply our results to some particular cases considered in the literature, including the so-called Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld theories among others. We finally discuss the possibility of imposing a gauge fixing where the connection is metric compatible, and comment on the genuine character of the non-metricity in theories where the two metrics are not conformally related.
Address [Alfonso, Victor I.] Univ Fed Campina Grande, Unidade Acad Fis, BR-58109970 Campina Grande, PB, Brazil, Email: viafonso@df.ufcg.edu.br;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000414726500001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3353
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Author Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Sanchez-Puente, A.
Title Accelerated observers and the notion of singular spacetime Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 35 Issue 5 Pages 055010 - 18pp
Keywords general relativity; geodesic behaviour; black holes; spacetime singularities; modified theories of gravity
Abstract Geodesic completeness is typically regarded as a basic criterion to determine whether a given spacetime is regular or singular. However, the principle of general covariance does not privilege any family of observers over the others and, therefore, observers with arbitrary motions should be able to provide a complete physical description of the world. This suggests that in a regular spacetime, all physically acceptable observers should have complete paths. In this work we explore this idea by studying the motion of accelerated observers in spherically symmetric spacetimes and illustrate it by considering two geodesically complete black hole spacetimes recently described in the literature. We show that for bound and locally unbound accelerations, the paths of accelerated test particles are complete, providing further support to the regularity of such spacetimes.
Address [Olmo, Gonzalo J.; Sanchez-Puente, Antonio] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Ctr Mixto, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: gonzalo.olmo@uv.es;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000424042100001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3473
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Author Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.
Title Junction conditions in Palatini f(R) gravity Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 37 Issue 21 Pages 215002 - 11pp
Keywords f(R) gravity; junction conditions; Palatini approach; stellar structure
Abstract We work out the junction conditions for f(R) gravity formulated in metric-affine (Palatini) spaces using a tensor distributional approach. These conditions are needed for building consistent models of gravitating bodies with an interior and exterior regions matched at some hypersurface. Some of these conditions depart from the standard Darmois-Israel ones of general relativity and from their metric f(R) counterparts. In particular, we find that the trace of the stress-energy momentum tensor in the bulk must be continuous across the matching hypersurface, though its normal derivative need not to. We illustrate the relevance of these conditions by considering the properties of stellar surfaces in polytropic models, showing that the range of equations of state with potentially pathological effects is shifted beyond the domain of physical interest. This confirms, in particular, that neutron stars and white dwarfs can be safely modelled within the Palatini f(R) framework.
Address [Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: gonzalo.olmo@uv.es;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000575326000001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4555
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Author Maso-Ferrando, A.; Sanchis-Gual, N.; Font, J.A.; Olmo, G.J.
Title Boson stars in Palatini f(R) gravity Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 38 Issue 19 Pages 194003 - 25pp
Keywords boson stars; Palatini formalism; modified gravity
Abstract We explore equilibrium solutions of spherically symmetric boson stars in the Palatini formulation of f (R) gravity. We account for the modifications introduced in the gravitational sector by using a recently established correspondence between modified gravity with scalar matter and general relativity with modified scalar matter. We focus on the quadratic theory f (R) = R + xi R-2 and compare its solutions with those found in general relativity, exploring both positive and negative values of the coupling parameter xi. As matter source, a complex, massive scalar field with and without self-interaction terms is considered. Our results show that the existence curves of boson stars in Palatini f (R) gravity are fairly similar to those found in general relativity. Major differences are observed for negative values of the coupling parameter which results in a repulsive gravitational component for high enough scalar field density distributions. Adding self-interactions makes the degeneracy between f (R) and general relativity even more pronounced, leaving very little room for observational discrimination between the two theories.
Address [Maso-Ferrando, Andreu; Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: andreu.maso@uv.es
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000695280300001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4964
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Author Olmo, G.J.; Rosa, J.L.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Saez-Chillon Gomez, D.
Title Shadows and photon rings of regular black holes and geonic horizonless compact objects Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume 40 Issue 17 Pages 174002 - 37pp
Keywords black holes; compact objects; photon rings; shadows; metric-affine gravity; Born-Infeld gravity; regular solutions
Abstract The optical appearance of a body compact enough to feature an unstable bound orbit, when surrounded by an accretion disk, is expected to be dominated by a luminous ring of radiation enclosing a central brightness depression typically known as the shadow. Despite observational limitations, the rough details of this picture have been now confirmed by the results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration on the imaging of the M87 and Milky Way supermassive central objects. However, the precise characterization of both features-ring and shadow-depends on the interaction between the background geometry and the accretion disk, thus being a fertile playground to test our theories on the nature of compact objects and the gravitational field itself in the strong-field regime. In this work we use both features in order to test a continuous family of solutions interpolating between regular black holes and horizonless compact objects, which arise within the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld theory of gravity, a viable extension of Einstein's general relativity (GR). To this end we consider seven distinctive classes of such configurations (five black holes and two traversable wormholes) and study their optical appearances under illumination by a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk, emitting monochromatically with three analytic intensity profiles previously suggested in the literature. We build such images and consider the sub-ring structure created by light rays crossing the disk more than once and existing on top of the main ring of radiation. We discuss in detail the modifications as compared to their GR counterparts, the Lyapunov exponents of unstable nearly-bound orbits, as well as the differences between black hole and traversable wormholes for the three intensity profiles. In addition we use the claim by the EHT Collaboration on the radius of the bright ring acting (under proper calibrations) as a proxy for the radius of the shadow itself to explore the parameter space of our solutions compatible with such a result.
Address [Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: drubiera@ucm.es
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Publisher IOP Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN (down) 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:001043720300001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5600
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Author Capozziello, S.; Harko, T.; Lobo, F.S.N.; Olmo, G.J.; Vignolo, S.
Title The Cauchy problem in hybrid metric-Palatini f(X)-gravity Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys.
Volume 11 Issue 5 Pages 1450042 - 12pp
Keywords Cauchy problem; modified gravity; hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Abstract The well-formulation and the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem are discussed for hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, a recently proposed modified gravitational theory consisting of adding to the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian an f(R)-term constructed a la Palatini. The theory can be recast as a scalar-tensor one predicting the existence of a light long-range scalar field that evades the local Solar System tests and is able to modify galactic and cosmological dynamics, leading to the late-time cosmic acceleration. In this work, adopting generalized harmonic coordinates, we show that the initial value problem can always be well-formulated and, furthermore, can be well-posed depending on the adopted matter sources.
Address [Capozziello, Salvatore] Univ Naples Federico II, Dipartimento Sci Fis, Naples, Italy, Email: capozzie@na.infn.it;
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (down) 0219-8878 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000336527100003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1813
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Author Sepehri, A.; Pincak, R.; Olmo, G.J.
Title M-theory, graphene-branes and superconducting wormholes Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys.
Volume 14 Issue 11 Pages 1750167 - 32pp
Keywords M-theory; wormholes; graphene; superconductors
Abstract Exploiting an M-brane system whose structure and symmetries are inspired by those of graphene (what we call a graphene-brane), we propose here a similitude between two layers of graphene joined by a nanotube and wormholes scenarios in the brane world. By using the symmetries and mathematical properties of the M-brane system, we show here how to possibly increase its conductivity, to the point of making it as a superconductor. The questions of whether and under which condition this might point to the corresponding real graphene structures becoming superconducting are briefly outlined.
Address [Sepehri, Alireza] Shahid Bahonar Univ, Fac Phys, POB 76175, Kerman, Iran, Email: alireza.sepehri@uk.ac.ir;
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN (down) 0219-8878 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000413442500018 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3334
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Author Izadi, A.; Shacker, S.S.; Olmo, G.J.; Banerjee, R.
Title Observational effects of varying speed of light in quadratic gravity cosmological models Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys.
Volume 15 Issue 5 Pages 1850084 - 16pp
Keywords Palatini formalism; modified gravity; causal structure constant; varying speed of light
Abstract We study different manifestations of the speed of light in theories of gravity where metric and connection are regarded as independent fields. We find that for a generic gravity theory in a frame with locally vanishing affine connection, the usual degeneracy between different manifestations of the speed of light is broken. In particular, the space-time causal structure constant (c(ST)) may become variable in that local frame. For theories of the form f(R, R-mu nu R-mu nu), this variation in c(ST) has an impact on the definition of the luminosity distance (and distance modulus), which can be used to confront the predictions of particular models against Supernovae type Ia (SN Ia) data. We carry out this test for a quadratic gravity model without cosmological constant assuming (i) a constant speed of light and (ii) a varying speed of light (VSL), and find that the latter scenario is favored by the data.
Address [Izadi, Azam] Khajeh Nasir Toosi Univ Technol, Dept Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: aizadi@kntu.ac.ir;
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN (down) 0219-8878 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000429106400016 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3553
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Author Olmo, G.J.
Title Palatini approach to modified gravity: f(R) theories and beyond Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication International Journal of Modern Physics D Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 413-462
Keywords Palatini formalism; modified gravity; cosmic speed-up; dark energy; dark matter; MOND; quantum gravity phenomenology; Hamiltonian formulation; stellar structure; Cauchy problem; solar system tests
Abstract We review the recent literature on modified theories of gravity in the Palatini approach. After discussing the motivations that lead to consider alternatives to Einstein's theory and to treat the metric and the connection as independent objects, we review several topics that have been recently studied within this framework. In particular, we provide an in-depth analysis of the cosmic speed-up problem, laboratory and solar system tests, the structure of stellar objects, the Cauchy problem, and bouncing cosmologies. We also discuss the importance of going beyond the f(R) models to capture other phenomenological aspects related with dark matter/energy and quantum gravity.
Address [Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia, Spain, Email: gonzalo.olmo@uv.es
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (down) 0218-2718 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000290228200001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 961
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