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Recently Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] formulated the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity by re-scaling GB coupling constant as $\alpha/(D-4)$ and taking limit $D \to 4$ at the level of field equations. The GB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-06 Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sushant G. Ghosh

This paper investigates the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave radiation characteristics of neutral test particles around a static spherically symmetric charged black hole (BH) in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D-EGB) gravity theory. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Liping Meng , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

In order to perform model-dependent tests of general relativity with gravitational wave observations, we must have access to numerical relativity binary black hole waveforms in theories beyond general relativity (GR). In this study, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Maria Okounkova

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

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

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

We investigate the presence of a black hole black string phase transition in Einstein Gauss Bonnet (EGB) gravity in the large dimension limit. The merger point is the static spacetime connecting the black string phase with the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Sreejith Nair , Vardarajan Suneeta

The Glavan-Lin proposal for 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity introduces a singular dimensional scaling to bypass Lovelock's theorem, though its fundamental origin remains debated. In this work, we demonstrate that this specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Apurv Keer , S. Shankaranarayanan

Higher dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity can be particularized to a four dimensional case either using the Glavan, D. and Lin, C. type \cite{glavan2020einstein} limiting method or by the Hordenski type \cite{gurses2007gauss} metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Ritabrata Biswas , Satyajit Pal

We propose a procedure for the $D\rightarrow 4$ limit of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity that leads to a well defined action principle in four dimensions. Our construction is based on compactifying $D$-dimensional EGB gravity on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 H. Lu , Yi Pang

The description of gravity in the form of an embedding theory is based on the hypothesis that our space-time is a four-dimensional surface in a flat ten-dimensional space. The choice of standard Einstein-Hilbert action leads in this case to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 S. A. Paston , A. D. Kapustin

We investigate spherical collapse in Eddington-inspired Born--Infeld (EiBI) gravity in the subhorizon, pressureless, and quasi-static regime, emphasizing the matter-gradient correction that appears in the weak-field limit of the theory.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 A. M Velásquez-Toribio

Einstenian cubic gravity (ECG) is a modified theory of gravity constructed with cubic contractions of the curvature tensor. This theory has the remarkable feature of having the same two propagating degrees of freedom of Einstein gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 L. A. Lessa , R. V. Maluf , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We study the process of gravitational collapse in pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity. In the homogeneous dust collapse, we show that the $D=7$ pure Gauss-Bonnet theory has gravitational dynamics indistinguishable from Einstein's theory in $D=4$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Daniele Malafarina , Naresh Dadhich

The occurrence of a spacetime singularity indicates the breakdown of Einstein gravitation theory in these extreme regimes. We consider here the singularity issue and various black hole paradoxes at classical and quantum levels. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S. Joshi

We study two of the most theoretically promising models of inflation, namely the Natural inflation and the Mutated Hilltop inflation, in the Einstein-Gauss Bonnet(EGB) gravity framework. In this work, we try to explore these models in EGB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Hussain Ahmed Khan , Yogesh

We develop here a new procedure within Einstein's theory of gravity to generate equilibrium configurations that result as the final state of gravitational collapse from regular initial conditions. As a simplification, we assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj S. Joshi , Daniele Malafarina , Ramesh Narayan

We consider the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric homogeneous matter distribution consisting of a Weyssenhoff fluid in the presence of a negative cosmological constant. Our aim is to investigate the effects of torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Amir Hadi Ziaie , Paulo Vargas Moniz , Arash Ranjbar , Hamid Reza Sepangi

The isolated horizon framework was introduced in order to provide a local description of black holes that are in equilibrium with their (possibly dynamic) environment. Over the past several years, the framework has been extended to include…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomas Liko , Ivan Booth

We study the gravitational collapse of a homogeneous time-dependent scalar field that, besides its coupling to curvature, it is also kinematically coupled to the Einstein tensor. This coupling is a part of the Horndeski theory and we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 George Koutsoumbas , Konstantinos Ntrekis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Minas Tsoukalas