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We conduct a preliminary investigation into the phenomenological implications of Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG), a 4-dimensional theory of gravity cubic in curvature of interest for its unique formulation and properties. We find an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-13 Robie A. Hennigar , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

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

Recently, a novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity was formulated and a spherically symmetric black hole solution in this theory was derived by D. Glavan and C. Lin \cite{Glavan:2019inb}. In this paper, we study the geodesic motions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Minyong Guo , Peng-Cheng Li

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…

We initiate the study of dynamical instabilities of higher-dimensional black holes using the blackfold approach, focusing on asymptotically flat boosted black strings and singly-spinning black rings in $D\ge5$. We derive novel analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-14 Jay Armas , Enrico Parisini

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity is an outcome of quadratic curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert gravity action in the form of a Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term in $ D > 4$ dimensions and EGB gravity is topologically invariant in $4D$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Sushant G. Ghosh , Dharm Veer Singh , Rahul Kumar , Sunil D. Maharaj

Quasinormal modes are excited during the ringdown phase of black holes after merger. Determination of quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes in alternative theories of gravity has remained a challenge for a long time. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

Based on the backward ray-tracing method, this paper numerically investigates the shadow and polarization images of rotating Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole within the framework of a thin disk model. We systematically analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Bing-Bing Chen , Chen-Yu Yang , Deyou Chen , Ke-Jian He

Using perturbative expansion in terms of powers of the rotation parameter $a$ we construct the axisymmetric and asymptotically flat black-hole metric in the $D$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. In five-dimensional spacetime we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Recently it has been shown that the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, by rescaling the coupling constant as $\alpha/(D-4)$ and taking the limit $D \rightarrow 4$ at the level of the equations of motion, becomes nontrivially ghost-free in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Dharm Veer Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj

We report on a numerical investigation of black hole evolution in an Einstein dilaton Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) gravity theory where the Gauss-Bonnet coupling and scalar (dilaton) field potential are symmetric under a global change in sign of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-13 Justin L. Ripley , Frans Pretorius

We report on a numerical investigation of the stability of scalarized black holes in Einstein dilaton Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) gravity in the full dynamical theory, though restricted to spherical symmetry. We find evidence that for sufficiently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Justin L. Ripley , Frans Pretorius

In this Ph.D. dissertation we study the emergence of black-hole and wormhole solutions in the framework of the Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) theory. Particularly we study a family of theories where the coupling function $f(\phi)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-27 Athanasios Bakopoulos

We numerically construct a family of stationary, axisymmetric black hole solutions in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory, incorporating both electric charge and rotation. Our results indicate that when nonlinear electromagnetic effects are weak,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Lang Cheng , Peng Wang

Among various strong-curvature extensions to General Relativity, Einstein-Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity stands out as the only nontrivial theory containing quadratic curvature corrections while being free from the Ostrogradsky instability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-05 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

In this paper, we analytically present an exact confining charged black hole solution to the scalar-tensor description of regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity (4DEGBG) coupled to non-linear gauge theory containing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 A. Övgün

In this paper we study the stability of an homogeneous black string in the presence of a negative cosmological constant with minimally coupled scalar fields by using the large $D$ effective theory. This method allows us to explore the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-23 Peng-Cheng Li , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We derive a stationary and axisymmetric black hole solution in Einstein-Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity to quadratic order in the ratio of the spin angular momentum to the black hole mass squared. This solution introduces new corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-24 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

We consider black hole in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity in a dynamical setup and also the stationary black hole in recently discovered\cite{Glavan} $4$-dimensional novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. For dynamical EGB black hole in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Bhramar Chatterjee

Some black hole mimickers, as well as black strings and other higher-dimensional spacetimes, exhibit stable light rings-regions where light or high-frequency gravitational waves can be trapped. In these regions, linear perturbations decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño