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In recent years, black hole (BH) solutions with an integrable singularity have garnered significant attention as alternatives to regular black holes (RBH). In these models, similarly to RBHs, an object would not undergo spaghettification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Milko Estrada

In arbitrary dimension D, we consider a self-interacting scalar field nonminimally coupled with a gravity theory given by a particular Lovelock action indexed by an integer k. To be more precise, the coefficients appearing in the Lovelock…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Moises Bravo Gaete , Mokhtar Hassaine

Junction conditions for vacuum solutions in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity are studied. We focus on those cases where two spherically symmetric regions of space-time are joined in such a way that the induced stress tensor on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-19 C. Garraffo , G. Giribet , E. Gravanis , S. Willison

In this paper, we obtain the lower-dimensional limits $(p=2,3,4,5,6)$ of cubic Lovelock gravity through a regularized Kaluza-Klein reduction. By taking a flat internal space for simplicity, we also study the static black hole solutions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gokhan Alkac , Gokcen Deniz Ozen , Gun Suer

Like the Lovelock Lagrangian which is a specific homogeneous polynomial in Riemann curvature, for an alternative derivation of the gravitational equation of motion, it is possible to define a specific homogeneous polynomial analogue of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-12 Naresh Dadhich

Vacuum solutions of Lovelock gravity in the presence of a recurrent null vector field (a subset of Kundt spacetimes) are studied. We first discuss the general field equations, which constrain both the base space and the profile functions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-08 Marcello Ortaggio

In this paper, we study the equation of state and its properties of the perfect fluid in the $D$-dimensional FRW universe under Einstein gravity, Gauss-Bonnet gravity and Lovelock gravity. In Einstein gravity, we get the equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Shi-Bei Kong , Ying Wang , Yu-Ke Wang

We define a notion of extrinsic black hole in pure Lovelock gravity of degree $k$ which captures the essential features of the so-called Lovelock-Schwarzschild solutions, viewed as rotationally invariant hypersurfaces with null $2k$-mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Levi Lopes de Lima , Frederico Girão , José Natário

For the description of the Universe expansion, compatible with observational data, a model of modified gravity - Lovelock gravity with dilaton - is investigated. D-dimensional space with 3- and (D-4)-dimensional maximally symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Ilya V. Kirnos , Andrew N. Makarenko

In this paper we propose a scheme which allows one to find all possible exponential solutions of special class -- non-constant volume solutions -- in Lovelock gravity in arbitrary number of dimensions and with arbitrate combinations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 Dmitry Chirkov , Sergey Pavluchenko , Alexey Toporensky

Static, spherically symmetric solutions of the field equations for a particular dimensional continuation of general relativity with negative cosmological constant are found. In even dimensions the solution has many similarities with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Maximo Banados

We investigate some properties of n(\ge 4)-dimensional spacetimes having symmetries corresponding to the isometries of an (n-2)-dimensional maximally symmetric space in Lovelock gravity under the null or dominant energy condition. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Hideki Maeda , Steven Willison , Sourya Ray

In this paper the dynamic compactification in Lovelock gravity with a cubic term is studied. The ansatz will be of space-time where the three dimensional space and the extra dimensions are constant curvature manifolds with independent scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-16 Dmitry Chirkov , Alex Giacomini , Alexey Toporensky

We study conformally compact metrics satisfying the Lovelock equations, which generalize the Einstein equation. We show that these metrics admit polyhomogeneous expansions, thereby naturally realizing the Fefferman-Graham expansion, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Xinran Yu

We find an exact solution in dimensionally continued gravity in arbitrary dimensions which describes the gravitational collapse of a null dust fluid. Considering the situation that a null dust fluid injects into the initially anti-de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masato Nozawa , Hideki Maeda

Analytic spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein field equations coupled with a perfect fluid and with self-similarities of the zeroth, first and second kinds, found recently by Benoit and Coley [Class. Quantum Grav. {\bf 15}, 2397…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 C. F. C. Brandt , L. -M. Lin , J. F. Villas da Rocha , A. Z. Wang

The gravitational interaction is expected to be modified for very short distances. This is particularly important in situations in which the curvature of spacetime is large in general, such as close to the initial cosmological singularity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Xián O. Camanho , Naresh Dadhich , Alfred Molina

A rotating stationary solution of the vacuum Einstein equations with a cosmological constant is exhibited which reduces to de Sitter's interior cosmological solution when the angular momentum goes to zero. This solution is locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-10 G. F. Chapline , P. Marecki

Einstein's field equations in general relativity admit a variety of solutions with spacetime singularities. Numerical relativity has recently revealed the properties of somewhat generic spacetime singularities. It has been found that in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-18 Tomohiro Harada

In this paper, we present an exact spherically symmetric solution of third order Lovelock gravity in $n$ dimensions which describes the gravitational collapse of a null dust fluid. This solution is asymptotically (anti-)de Sitter or flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 M. H. Dehghani , N. Farhangkhah