https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2017-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Unimodular bimode gravity and the coherent scalar-graviton field as galaxy dark matter
Theory Division, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, 142281, Moscow Region, Russia
* e-mail: pirogov@ihep.ru
Received:
25
November
2011
Revised:
3
April
2012
Published online:
16
June
2012
An explicit violation of the general gauge invariance/relativity is adopted as the origin of dark matter and dark energy in the context of gravitation. The violation of the local scale invariance alone, with the residual unimodular one, is considered. Besides the four-volume preserving deformation mode—the transverse-tensor graviton—the metric comprises a compression mode—the scalar graviton, or the systolon. A unimodular invariant and general covariant metric theory of the bimode/scalar-tensor gravity is consistently worked out. To reduce the primordial ambiguity of the theory a dynamical global symmetry is imposed, with its subsequent spontaneous breaking revealed. The static spherically symmetric case in empty space, except possibly for the origin, is studied. A three-parameter solution describing a new static space structure—the dark lacuna—is constructed. It enjoys the property of gravitational confinement, with the logarithmic potential of gravitational attraction at the periphery, and results in asymptotically flat rotation curves. Comprising a super-massive dark fracture (a scalar-modified black hole) at the origin surrounded by a cored dark halo, the dark lacunas are proposed as a prototype model of galaxies, implying an ultimate account for the distributed non-gravitational matter and putative asphericity or rotation.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
