Gravitational collapse and odd-parity black hole perturbations in Minimal Theory of Bigravity

TL;DR

This paper investigates gravitational collapse and odd-parity perturbations in Minimal Theory of Bigravity, deriving exact solutions for collapse scenarios and analyzing perturbation modes around Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes.

Contribution

It presents new exact solutions for gravitational collapse in MTBG and analyzes the perturbation structure of Schwarzschild-de Sitter solutions, highlighting differences from general relativity.

Findings

Exact solutions for dust collapse in MTBG with specific foliations

Identification of independent evolution of sectors under certain conditions

Analysis of perturbation modes showing dynamical and shadowy modes

Abstract

In the former part, we study the gravitational collapse of pressureless dust and find special solutions, where, in both the physical and fiducial sectors, the exterior and interior spacetime geometries are given by the Schwarzschild spacetimes and the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universes dominated by pressureless dust, respectively, with specific time slicings. In the case where the Lagrange multipliers are trivial and have no jump across the matter interfaces in both the physical and fiducial sectors, the junction conditions across them remain the same as those in general relativity (GR). For simplicity, we foliate the interior geometry by homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes. For a spatially flat interior universe, we foliate the exterior geometry by a time-independent flat space, while for a spatiallycurved interior universe, we foliate the exterior geometry by a time-independent space with deficit solid angle. Despite the rather restrictive choice of foliations, we find interesting classes of exact solutions that represent gravitational collapse in MTBG. In the spatially flat case, under a certain tuning of the initial condition, we find exact solutions of matter collapse in which the two sectors evolve independently. In the spatially closed case, once the matter energy densities and the Schwarzschild radii are tuned between the two sectors, we find exact solutions that correspond to the Oppenheimer-Snyder model in GR. In the latter part, we study odd-parity perturbations of the Schwarzschild$-$de Sitter solutions written in the spatially flat coordinates. For the higher-multipole modes $\ell\geq2$, we find that, in general, the system reduces to that of four physical modes, where two of them are dynamical and the remaining two are shadowy, i.e., satisfying only elliptic equations.