Revisiting diagonal tetrads: New Black Hole solutions in $f(T)$ gravity

TL;DR

This paper classifies vacuum black hole solutions in $f(T)$ gravity with diagonal tetrads across various horizon topologies, introduces new exact magnetic and dyonic black hole solutions, and discusses conditions for non-trivial solutions and their properties.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of diagonal tetrad solutions in $f(T)$ gravity and introduces two novel exact black hole solutions with magnetic and electric-magnetic charges.

Findings

All vacuum solutions with diagonal tetrads have constant torsion scalars.

New magnetic and dyonic black hole solutions are constructed.

Matter is necessary for non-trivial solutions with flat horizons.

Abstract

We study various forms of diagonal tetrads that accommodate Black Hole solutions in $f(T)$ gravity with certain symmetries. As is well-known, vacuum spherically symmetric diagonal tetrads lead to rather boring cases of constant torsion scalars. We extend this statement to other possible horizon topologies, namely, spherical, hyperbolic and planar horizons. All such cases are forced to have constant torsion scalars to satisfy the anti-symmetric part of the field equations. We give a full classification of possible vacuum static solutions of this sort. Furthermore, we discuss addition of time-dependence in all the above cases. We also show that if all the components of a diagonal tetrad depend only on one coordinate, then the anti-symmetric part of the field equations is automatically satisfied. This result applies to the flat horizon case with Cartesian coordinates. For solutions with a planar symmetry (or a flat horizon), one can naturally use Cartesian coordinates on the horizon. In this case, we show that the presence of matter is required for existence of non-trivial solutions. This is a novel and very interesting feature of these constructions. We present two new exact solutions, the first is a magnetic Black Hole which is the magnetic dual of a known electrically charged Black Hole in literature. The second is a dyonic Black Hole with electric and magnetic charges. We present some features of these Black holes, namely, extremality conditions, mass, behavior of torsion and curvature scalars near the singularity.