We explore the ultra-relativistic (UR) limit of a class of four dimensional gravity theories, known as Lovelock–Cartan (LC) gravities, in the first order formalism. First, we review the well known limit of the Einstein–Hilbert (EH) action. A very useful scale symmetry involving the vierbeins and the boost connection is presented. Moreover, we explore the field equations in order to find formal solutions. Some remarkable results are obtained: Riemann and Weitzenböck like manifolds are discussed; Birkhoff’s theorem is verified for the torsionless case; an explicit solution with non-trivial geometry is discussed; a quite general solution in the presence of matter is obtained. Latter, we consider the UR limit of the more general LC gravity. The previously scale symmetry is also discussed. The field equations are studied in vacuum and in the presence of matter. In comparison with the EH case, a few relevant results are found: Birkhoff’s theorem is also verified for the torsionless case; a quite general solution in the presence of matter is obtained. This solution generalizes the previous case; Riemann and Weitzenböck like manifolds are derived in the same lines of the EH case.
We consider the non-relativistic limit of gravity in four dimensions in the first order formalism. First, we revisit the case of the Einstein-Hilbert action and formally discuss some geometrical configurations in vacuum and in the presence of matter at leading order. Second, we consider the more general Mardones-Zanelli action and its non-relativistic limit. The field equations and some interesting geometries, in vacuum and in the presence of matter, are formally obtained. Remarkably, in contrast to the Einstein-Hilbert limit, the set of field equations is fully determined because the boost connection appears in the action and field equations. It is found that the cosmological constant must disappear in the non-relativistic Mardones-Zanelli action at leading order. The conditions for Newtonian absolute time be acceptable are also discussed. It turns out that Newtonian absolute time can be safely implemented with reasonable conditions.
We consider a nonlinear dielectric medium surrounding a static, charged and spherically symmetric compact body which gravitational field is driven by General Relativity (GR). Considering the propagating waves on the dielectric medium, we describe the trajectory of light as geodesics on an effective geometry given by Hadamard's discontinuities. We analyze some consequences of the effective geometry in the propagation of light, with relation to the predictions of the background gravitational field, that includes corrections on the geometrical redshift and on the gravitational deflection of light. We show that the background electromagnetic field polarize the material medium, such that different polarizations of light are distinguished by different corrections on these quantities. As a consequence, we have two possible paths for the trajectory of light in such configuration, that coincide if we turn off the electromagnetic field or if the permittivity is constant. We show that the effective metric associated to the negative polarization, for a given dependence of the dielectric permittivity, is conformally flat.
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