A Tour Through Shape Dynamic Black Holes

Abstract

Shape dynamics is a classical theory of gravity which agrees with general relativity in many important cases, but possesses different gauge symmetries and constraints. Rather than spacetime diffeomorphism invariance, shape dynamics takes spatial diffeomorphism invariance and spatial Weyl invariance as the fundamental gauge symmetries associated with the gravitational field. Despite these differences, shape dynamics and general relativity generically predict the same dynamics---there exist gauge-fixings of each theory that ensure agreement with the other. However, these gauge-fixing conditions are not necessarily globally well-defined and it is therefore possible to find solutions of the shape dynamics equations of motion that agree with general relativity on some open neighborhoods, but which have different global structures. In particular, the black hole solutions of the two theories disagree globally. Understanding these novel "shape dynamic black holes" is the primary goal of this thesis.

arXiv commentThesis, 89 pages, 5 figures. This work draws heavily from arXiv:1508.06704, arXiv:1410.4248, and arXiv:1310.6095

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