Friday, September 14, 2012

1209.2972 (Paolo Pani et al.)

Surface singularities in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity    [PDF]

Paolo Pani, Thomas P. Sotiriou
Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity was recently proposed as an alternative to general relativity that offers a resolution of spacetime singularities. The theory differs from Einstein's gravity only inside matter due to nondynamical degrees of freedom, and it is compatible with all current observations. We show that the theory is reminiscent of Palatini f(R) gravity and that it shares the same pathologies, such as curvature singularities at the surface of polytropic stars and unacceptable Newtonian limit. This casts serious doubts on its viability.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2972

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