Stacking a 4D geometry into an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet bulk
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In Einstein gravity there is a simple procedure to build D-dimensional spacetimes starting from (D-1)-dimensional ones, by stacking any (D-1)-dimensional Ricci-flat metric into the extra-dimension. We analyze this procedure in the context of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, and find that it can only be applied to metrics with a constant Krestschmann scalar. For instance, we show that solutions of the black-string type are not allowed in this framework.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211013,
title = {Stacking a 4D geometry into an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet bulk},
author = {Carlos Barcelo and Roy Maartens and Carlos F. Sopuerta and Fermin Viniegra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211013},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, no figures; some references added and other minor modifications to match the PRD accepted version