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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/005
Keywords
quantum gravity phenomenology; modified gravity; gravity
Funding
- MEXT [17740134]
- Creative Scientific Research [19GS0219]
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative
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There are at least four versions of Horava-Lishitz gravity in the literature. We consider the version without the detailed balance condition with the projectability condition and address one aspect of the theory: avoidance of caustics for constant time hypersurfaces. We show that there is no caustic with plane symmetry in the absence of matter source if lambda not equal 1. If lambda = 1 is a stable IR fixed point of the renormalization group flow then lambda is expected to deviate from 1 near would-be caustics, where the extrinsic curvature increases and high-energy corrections become important. Therefore, the absence of caustics with lambda not equal 1 implies that caustics cannot form with this symmetry in the absence of matter source. We argue that inclusion of matter source will not change the conclusion. We also argue that caustics with codimension higher than one will not form because of repulsive gravity generated by nonlinear higher curvature terms. These arguments support our conjecture that there is no caustic for constant time hypersurfaces. Finally, we discuss implications to the recently proposed scenario of dark matter as integration constant.
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