On the causality properties in non-local gravity theories

Abstract

It is well known that non-local theories of gravity have been a flourish arena of studies for many reasons, for instance, the UV incompleteness of General Relativity (GR). In this paper we check the consistency of ST-homogeneous Gödel-type metrics within the non-local gravity framework. The non-local models considered here are ghost-free but not necessarily renormalizable since we focus on the classical solutions of the field equations. Furthermore, the non-locality is displayed in the action through transcendental entire functions of the d'Alembert operator $\square$ that are mathematically represented by a power series of the $\square$-operator. We find two exactly solutions for the field equations correspondent to the degenerate ($\omega =0$) and hyperbolic ($m^2=4{\omega }^2$) classes of ST-homogeneous Gödel-type metrics.

arXiv comment16 pages, version accepted to EPJ C

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