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As is well-known, asymptotically flat, static and spherically symmetric black holes do not admit stable bound orbits of massive/massless particles outside the horizon in higher-dimensional Einstein gravity. However, for massive particles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-20 Ryotaku Suzuki , Shinya Tomizawa

The classification of certain class of static solutions for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in vacuum is performed in $d\geq5$ dimensions. The class of metrics under consideration is such that the spacelike section is a warped product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Gustavo Dotti , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

We study the static black holes in the large $D$ dimensions in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a cosmological constant, coupled to the Maxewell theory. After integrating the equation of motion with respect to the radial direction, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Bin Chen , Peng-Cheng Li

Analysis of time-domain profiles for gravitational perturbations shows that Gauss-Bonnet black holes in a de Sitter world possess a new kind of dynamical instability which does not take place for asymptotically flat Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-30 M. A. Cuyubamba , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

By rescaling the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) coupling constant $\alpha \rightarrow \alpha/(D-4)$ and considering the $D \rightarrow 4$ limit, the GB gravity gives rise to nontrivial modification of general relativity in four dimensions. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Shou-Long Li , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

Generalizations of the Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes are discussed in an astrophysically viable generalized theory of gravity, which includes higher curvature corrections in the form of the Gauss-Bonnet term, coupled to a dilaton. The…

General relativity admits a plethora of exact compact object solutions. The augmentation of Einstein's action with non-minimal coupling terms leads to modified theories with rich structure, which, in turn, provide non-trivial solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-31 Nikos Chatzifotis , Christoforos Vlachos , Kyriakos Destounis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

Theoretical arguments and cosmological observations suggest that Einstein's theory of general relativity needs to be modified at high energies. One of the best motivated higher-curvature extensions of general relativity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-04 Laura Sberna

In [P. Kanti, B. Kleihaus, J. Kunz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 271101 (2011)] it was shown that the four-dimensional Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet theory allows for wormholes without introducing any exotic matter. The numerical solution for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-28 M. A. Cuyubamba , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The stability properties of the Einstein Static solution of General Relativity are altered when corrective terms arising from modification of the underlying gravitational theory appear in the cosmological equations. In this paper the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Rosangela Canonico , Luca Parisi

We report the existence of unstable, s-wave modes, for black strings in Gauss-Bonnet theory (which is quadratic in the curvature) in seven dimensions. This theory admits analytic uniform black strings that in the transverse section are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Alex Giacomini , Julio Oliva , Aldo Vera

We consider static cosmological solutions along with their stability properties in the framework of a recently proposed theory of massive gravity. We show that the modifcation introduced in the cosmological equations leads to several new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-27 Luca Parisi , Ninfa Radicella , Gaetano Vilasi

This paper is devoted to study the stability/instability of the expansionfree self gravitating source in the framework of Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The source has been taken as Tolman-Bondi model which is homogenous in nature. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-22 G. Abbas , S. Sarwar

In regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity derived from a Kaluza-Klein reduction of higher-dimensional EGB theory, we study the existence and stability of black hole (BH) solutions on a static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-02 Shinji Tsujikawa

Higher dimensional Einstein gravity in vacuum admits static black hole solutions with an Einstein manifold of non constant curvature as a horizon. This gives a much richer family of static black holes than in four dimensional GR. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser

The stability under radial and vertical perturbations of circular orbits associated to particles orbiting a spherically symmetric center of attraction is study in the context of the n-dimensional: Newtonian theory of gravitation, Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valeria M. Rosa , Patricio S. Letelier

We study the instability of Schwarzschild black holes and the appearance of scalarized solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity performing a time-domain analysis in a perturbative scheme. First we consider a quadratic coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Fabrizio Corelli

In this paper, we find some new exact solutions to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet equations. First, we prove a theorem which allows us to find a large family of solutions to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in $n$-dimensions. This family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alfredo E. Dominguez , Emanuel Gallo

We have studied spacetime structures of static solutions in the $n$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell-$\Lambda$ system. Especially we focus on effects of the Maxwell charge. We assume that the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient $\alpha$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Takashi Torii , Hideki Maeda

We study the stability of new neutral and electrically charged four-dimensional black hole solutions of Einstein's equations with a positive cosmological constant and conformally coupled scalar field. The neutral black holes are always…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Tom J. T. Harper , Paul A. Thomas , Elizabeth Winstanley , Phil M. Young