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We consider a theory of modified gravity possessing d extra spatial dimensions with a maximally symmetric metric and a scale factor, whose (4+d)-dimensional gravitational action contains terms proportional to quadratic curvature scalars.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Carsten van de Bruck , Chris Longden

We consider the purely gravitational fourth-order (in the spacetime curvature) quantum corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert gravity action, coming from superstrings in the leading order with respect to the Regge slope parameter, and study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Iihoshi , S. V. Ketov

We consider the cosmology where some function f(G) of the Gauss-Bonnet term G is added to the gravitational action to account for the late-time accelerating expansion of the universe. The covariant and gauge invariant perturbation equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Baojiu Li , John D. Barrow , David F. Mota

In this paper we study the higher dimensional homogeneous and isotropic perfect fluid spacetimes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. We solve the modified field equations with higher order curvature terms to determine the evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Aavishkar Madhunlall , Chevarra Hansraj , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) model is recently restudied in order to analyze new consequences in gravitation, modifying appropriately the Einstein-Hilbert action. The consequences in EGB cosmology are mainly geometric, with higher order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , A. Hernández-Almada

We discuss a new extended gravity model in ordinary $D=4$ spacetime dimensions, where an additional term in the action involving Gauss-Bonnet topological density is included without the need to couple it to matter fields unlike the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Eduardo Guendelman , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

We study cosmologies in modified theories of gravity considering Lagrangian density $f(R)$ which is a polynomial function of scalar curvature ($R$) in the Einstein-Hilbert action in vacuum. The field equation obtained from the modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 B. C. Paul , P. S. Debnath , S. Ghose

In this paper, in the framework of massive bigravity, we study all possible cosmic evolutions by using a method in which the modified Friedmann equation is written in a form where the scale factor evolves like the motion of a particle under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 M. Mousavi , F. Darabi

The accepted idea that the expansion of the universe is accelerating needs, for compatibility to general relativity, the introduction of some unusual forms of matter. However, several authors have proposed that instead of making weird…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Fábio dos Anjos , Mario Novello

Recently it has been proposed that the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter of Lovelock gravity may suitably be rescaled in order to admit physically viable models of celestial phenomena such that higher curvature effects are active in standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Sudan Hansraj , Ayan Banerjee , Lushen Moodly , M. K. Jasim

The modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity can be motivated by a number of physical reasons, including: the uniqueness of a gravitational Lagrangian in four and higher dimensions and the leading order $\alpha^\prime$ corrections in superstring…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Ishwaree P. Neupane

We examine the cosmological dynamics of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity models in a four-dimensional spatially flat FLRW metric. These models are described by $f\left( R,\mathcal{G}\right) =f\left( R+\mu \mathcal{G}\right) $ theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Nikolaos Dimakis , Alex Giacomini , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Ekaterina Pozdeeva , Sergey Vernov

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

We study the classical and quantum models of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time, coupled to a perfect fluid, in the context of the consensus and a gauge-fixed Lagrangian frameworks. It is shown that, either in the usual or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Babak Vakili

Recently, an action principle for the $D\rightarrow4$ limit of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity has been proposed. It is a special scalar-tensor theory that belongs to the family of Horndeski gravity. It also has a well defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 H. Lu , Pujian Mao

In this paper, we consider a gravitational action containing a combination of the Ricci scalar, $R$, and the topological Gauss--Bonnet term, $G$. Specifically, we study the cosmological features of a particular class of modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 Francesco Bajardi , Rocco D'Agostino

Some models within the framework of Gauss-Bonnet gravities are considered in the presence of a non-minimally coupled scalar field. By imposing a particular constraint on the scalar field coupling, an extension of the called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Saez-Chillon Gomez , German S. Sharov

Recently a new 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory has been introduced \textbf{[Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 081301]} with a serious debate that it does not possess a covariant equation of motion in $4D$. This feature, makes impossible to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-18 Shahab Shahidi , Nima Khosravi

We consider numerically dynamics of a flat anisotropic Universe in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with positive $\Lambda$ in dimensionalities 5+1 and 6+1. We identify three possible outcomes of the evolution, one singular and two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Dmitry Chirkov , Alexey Toporensky

In this paper, a bouncing cosmological scenario is studied in the background of a flat FLRW model with a specific parametrized hyperbolic form of scale factor $ a $ in terms of $ t $, where $ \lambda $ is taken as the model parameter. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 J. K. Singh , Shaily , Kazuharu Bamba