D Blas et al 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 1697 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/015
D Blas1, C Deffayet2,3 and J Garriga1
Show affiliationsWe discuss the causal diagrams of static and spherically symmetric bigravity vacuum solutions, with interacting metrics f and g. Such solutions can be classified into type I (or 'non-diagonal') and type II (or 'diagonal'). The general solution of type I is known, and leads to metrics f and g in the Schwarzschild–(anti-)de Sitter family. The two metrics are not always diagonalizable in the same coordinate system, and the light-cone structure of both metrics can be quite different. In spite of this, we find that causality is preserved, in the sense that closed timelike curves cannot be pieced together from geodesics of both metrics. We propose maximal extensions of type I bigravity solutions, where geodesics of both metrics do not stop unless a curvature singularity is encountered. Such maximal extensions can contain several copies (or even an infinite number of them) of the maximally extended 'individual' geometries associated with f and g separately. Generically, we find that the maximal extensions of bigravity solutions are not globally hyperbolic, even in cases when the individual geometries are. The general solution of type II has not been given in the closed form. We discuss a subclass where g is an arbitrary solution of Einstein's equations with a cosmological constant, and we find that in this case the only solutions are such that f ∝ g (with a trivial causal structure).
04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure
04.20.Dw Singularities and cosmic censorship
04.20.Cv Fundamental problems and general formalism
04.20.Fy Canonical formalism, Lagrangians, and variational principles
83C20 Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries
83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
Issue 5 (7 March 2006)
Received 19 September 2005, in final form 19 January 2006
Published 17 February 2006
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