On the existence of singularity-free solutions in quartic gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study a general field theory of a scalar field coupled to gravitation through a quadratic Gauss-Bonnet term . We show that, under mild assumptions about the function , the classical solutions in a spatially flat FRW background include singularity - free solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9401023,
title = {On the existence of singularity-free solutions in quartic gravity},
author = {J. Rizos and K. Tamvakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9401023},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, LATEX, uses epsf.tex macro, (1 figure included in uuencode+compress EPSF form), IOA-296