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We study thermodynamic properties and phase structures of topological black holes in Einstein theory with a Gauss-Bonnet term and a negative cosmological constant. The event horizon of these topological black holes can be a hypersurface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Rong-Gen Cai

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher dimensional curvature operators. Depending on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Claudia de Rham , Jérémie Francfort , Jun Zhang

Gravitational waves emitted by distorted black holes---such as those arising from the coalescence of two neutron stars or black holes---carry not only information about the corresponding spacetime but also about the underlying theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Caio F. B. Macedo , Vitor Cardoso , Valeria Ferrari , Leonardo Gualtieri , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz , Paolo Pani

The General Relativity Effective Field Theory (GREFT) introduces higher-derivative interactions to parameterise the gravitational effects of massive degrees of freedom which are too heavy to be probed directly. The coefficients of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Scott Melville

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

Inspired by the Lifshitz gravity as a theory with anisotropic scaling behavior, we suggest a new $(n+1)-$dimensional metric in which the time and spatial coordinates scale anisotropically as $(t,r,\theta_{i})\,\to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 S. Mahmoudi , Kh. Jafarzade , S. H. Hendi

In this study, we present a novel family of exact black hole solutions constructed in the context of five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. These solutions add a non-linear charge to the Ba\~{n}ados-Teitelboim-Zanelli-like configurations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Moisés Bravo-Gaete , Luis Guajardo , Daniel F. Higuita-Borja , Julio A. Méndez-Zavaleta

Camanho, Edelstein, Maldacena and Zhiboedov have shown that gravitons can experience a negative Shapiro time delay, i.e. a time advance, in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. They studied gravitons propagating in singular "shock-wave"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Giuseppe Papallo , Harvey S. Reall

In this paper, we investigate a class of $5$-dimensional black holes in the presence of Gauss-Bonnet gravity with dyonic charges. At first step, thermodynamical quantities of the black holes and their behaviors are explored for different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-20 S. Panahiyan , S. H. Hendi , N. Riazi

We present the asymptotically AdS solutions of Gauss-Bonnet gravity with hyperbolic horizon in the presence of a non-Abelian Yang-Mills field with the gauge semisimple group $So(n(n-1)/2-1,1)$. We investigate the properties of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-08-12 M. H. Dehghani , N. Bostani , R. Pourhasan

In this paper, we study the $D\to3$ limit of Gauss-Bonnet gravity with quintessential matter, obtaining exact solutions that extend the BTZ metric through higher-curvature terms and quintessence coupling. The solutions exhibit a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 G. Alencar , T. M. Crispim , J. Macedo , C. R. Muniz

This is a report of our recent investigation on the extremal dilatonic black holes in four dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We found that a global solution can exist only when the dilaton coupling is less than a critical value which can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiang-Mei Chen

Dictated by the string theory and various higher dimensional scenarios, black holes in $D>4$-dimensional space-times must have higher curvature corrections. The first and dominant term is quadratic in curvature, and called the Gauss-Bonnet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-15 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We obtain rotating black hole solutions to the novel 3D Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity recently proposed. These solutions generalize the BTZ metric and are not of constant curvature. They possess an ergoregion and outer horizon, but do not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Robie A. Hennigar , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

A key consequence of Lorentz-violating gravity is the emergence of modified dispersion relations implying the absence of a universal maximum propagation speed. This challenges the conventional notion of the event horizon as a causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Francesco Del Porro , Stefano Liberati , Jacopo Mazza

Black holes in Lorentz violating gravity, such as Einstein--Aether or Horava--Lifshitz Gravity, are drastically different from their general relativistic siblings. Although they allow for superluminal motion in their vicinity, they still…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-30 F. Del Porro , M. Herrero-Valea , S. Liberati , M. Schneider

We construct a charged rotating black hole in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity starting from charged black hole in 4D EGB gravity using complex coordinate transformations suggested by Newman-Janis. Further, we have studied the null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Uma Papnoi , Farruh Atamurotov

We consider universal properties that arise from a local geometric structure of a Killing horizon. We first introduce a non-perturbative definition of such a local geometric structure, which we call an asymptotic Killing horizon. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun-ichirou Koga

Gravitational waves from extreme gravity events such as the coalescence of two black holes in a binary system fill our observable universe, bearing with them the underlying theory of gravity driving their process. One compelling alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

In this study, we investigate a nonlinear mechanism driving the formation of scalarized rotating black holes within a scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity framework that includes an additional squared Gauss-Bonnet term. With the specific coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Shoupan Liu , Yunqi Liu , Yan Peng , Cheng-Yong Zhang