Rotating black holes in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity: an exact solution

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Published 28 July 2020 © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Merce Guerrero et al JCAP07(2020)058 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/058

1475-7516/2020/07/058

Abstract

We find an exact, rotating charged black hole solution within Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. To this end we employ a recently developed correspondence or mapping between modified gravity models built as scalars out of contractions of the metric with the Ricci tensor, and formulated in metric-affine spaces (Ricci-Based Gravity theories) and General Relativity. This way, starting from the Kerr-Newman solution, we show that this mapping bring us the axisymmetric solutions of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity coupled to a certain model of non-linear electrodynamics. We discuss the most relevant physical features of the solutions obtained this way, both in the spherically symmetric limit and in the fully rotating regime. Moreover, we further elaborate on the potential impact of this important technical progress for bringing closer the predictions of modified gravity with the astrophysical observations of compact objects and gravitational wave astronomy.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/058