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The close limit approximation of binary black hole is a powerful method to study gravitational-wave emission from highly non-linear geometries. In this work, we use it as a tool to model black hole spacetimes in theories of gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Lorenzo Annulli

We revisit scalarized black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and analyze the thermodynamic phase transition between the Schwarzschild solution of general relativity and scalarized black holes. Restricting to spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Carlos Herdeiro , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Meng-Yun Lai , Eugen Radu , De-Cheng Zou

We review the topic of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which has been the subject of considerable interest over the past two years. Our review begins with a general introduction to Lovelock's theorem, and the subject of Gauss-Bonnet terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Pedro Carrilho , Timothy Clifton , David J. Mulryne

In the context of General Relativity, black holes are not allowed to possess scalar hair, wormholes are not traversable and particle-like solutions are irregular. Therefore, in order to derive novel and physically interesting solutions that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Panagiota Kanti

The Gauss - Bonnet invariant is one of the most promising candidates for a quadratic curvature correction to the Einstein action in expansions of supersymmetric string theory. We study the evaporation of such Schwarzschild - Gauss - Bonnet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Barrau , J. Grain , S. O. Alexeyev

This study investigates the modeling of anisotropic magnetized static neutron stars within the framework of five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (5D EGB) gravity. While Einstein's gravity has traditionally been employed to examine neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Mohammad Mazhari

We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, $D$. In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Craig R. Clark , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We construct solutions of higher-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to nonlinear $\sigma$-model with cosmological constant. The $\sigma$-model can be perceived as exterior configuration of a spontaneously-broken $SO(D-1)$ global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Ilham Prasetyo , Handhika S. Ramadhan

We study numerically the collapse of massless scalar fields in two-dimensional dilaton gravity, both classically and semiclassically. At the classical level, we find that the black hole mass scales at threshold like $M_{\rm bh} \propto…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Yoav Peleg , Sukanta Bose , Leonard Parker

This paper analyzes the possibility of bouncing and non-bouncing universes in the framework of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D-EGB) gravity, corresponding respectively to negative and positive coupling constants $\lambda$ of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 H. Khodabakhshi , M. Farhang , H. Lü

Dynamical Einstein cluster is a spherical self-gravitating system of counterrotating particles, which may expand, oscillate and collapse. This system exhibits critical behaviour in its collapse at the threshold of black hole formation. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohiro Harada , Ashutosh Mahajan

In this paper, we studied Einsteinian quartic gravity minimally coupled to electrodynamics in four dimensions. First, by variation action, we obtain the field equations, and by integration, we obtain a nonlinear third-order differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 S. N. Sajadi , Leila Shahkarami , Farid Charmchi , S. H. Hendi

We obtain exact Bardeen black holes to the regularized $4D$ Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet (EGB) gravity minimally coupled with the nonlinear electrodynamics (NED). In turn, we analyze the horizon structure to determine the effect of GB parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 Arun Kumar , Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study gravitational collapse in effective loop quantum gravity, focusing on non-marginally bound configurations in Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi spacetimes. In the homogeneous limit we recover the effective dynamics of loop quantum cosmology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Edward Wilson-Ewing

We show that four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity admits asymptotically flat black hole solutions with a degenerate event horizon of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om type $AdS_2\times S^2$. Such black holes exist for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiang-Mei Chen , Dmitri V. Gal'tsov , Dmitry G. Orlov

We look at general braneworlds in six-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We find the general matching conditions for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet braneworld, which remarkably turn out to give precisely the four-dimensional Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Bostock , Ruth Gregory , Ignacio Navarro , Jose Santiago

It is shown that Einstein gravity in four dimensions with small cosmological constant and small extra dimensions can be obtained by spontaneous compactification of Lovelock gravity in vacuum. Assuming that the extra dimensions are compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-09 Fabrizio Canfora , Alex Giacomini , Ricardo Troncoso , Steven Willison

The discovery of new four-dimensional black hole solutions presents a new approach to understand the Gauss-Bonnet gravity in low dimensions. In this paper, we test the Gauss-Bonnet gravity by studying the phase transition and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

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…

Generalized Quasitopological Gravities (GQTGs) are higher-order extensions of Einstein gravity in $D$ dimensions satisfying a number of interesting properties, such as possessing second-order linearized equations of motion on top of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Javier Moreno , Ángel J. Murcia