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Motivated by quantum gravity effects suggested by string theory, we investigate gravitational configurations sourced by an effective energy density inspired by T-duality. This density naturally introduces a minimal length scale $l_0$ that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 G. Alencar , T. M. Crispim , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez , Marcos V. de S. Silva

In regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity derived from a Kaluza-Klein reduction of higher-dimensional EGB theory, we study the existence and stability of black hole (BH) solutions on a static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-02 Shinji Tsujikawa

We utilize a recent formulation of a spherically symmetric spacetime endowed with a general decomposition of the energy momentum tensor [Phys. Rev. D, 75, 024031 (2007)] to derive equations governing spherically symmetric distributions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Lasky , Anthony Lun

We numerically study a formation of near extremal horizons from a gravitational collapse of radially symmetric gravitational waves in $4+1$ dimensions within the framework of pure Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 Maciej Dunajski , Sebastian J. Szybka

Among the higher curvature gravities, the most extensively studied theory is the so-called Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, whose Lagrangian contains Einstein term with the GB combination of quadratic curvature terms, and the GB term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Rahul Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

We establish the formalism in the nonsymmetric gravitational theory (NGT) for stellar equilibrium and gravitational collapse. We study the collapse of a pressureless, spherically symmetric dust cloud. By assuming that the interior solution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. W. Moffat

We examine the dynamics of the gravitational collapse in a 4-dim Lorentzian brane embedded in a 5-dim bulk with an extra timelike dimension. By considering the collapse of pure dust on the brane we derive a bouncing FLRW interior solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-23 Rodrigo Maier , Ivano Damião Soares

We numerically study the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field with spherical symmetry in Einstein-aether theory, and show that apparent, spin-0 and dynamical universal horizons (dUHs) can be all formed. The spacetime and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Madhurima Bhattacharjee , Shinji Mukohyama , Mew-Bing Wan , Anzhong Wang

We numerically study spherical gravitational collapse in shift symmetric Einstein dilaton Gauss Bonnet (EdGB) gravity. We find evidence that there are open sets of initial data for which the character of the system of equations changes from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Justin L Ripley , Frans Pretorius

Recently, several methods have been proposed to regularize a $D \to 4$ limit of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB), leading to nontrivial gravitational dynamics in $4D$. We present an exact nonsingular black hole solution in the $4D$ EGB gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 Arun Kumar , Dharmanand Baboolal , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper, we explore a collapsing scenario in the background of energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG). EMSG claims to have terms that originate from the quantum gravity effects mimicking loop quantum gravity. As a result, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Prabir Rudra

Low energy limits of string theory indicated that the standard gravity action should be modified to include higher-order curvature terms, in the form of dimensionally continued Gauss-Bonnet densities. If one includes only quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-18 Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj

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

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

The discovery of a "weakly-turbulent" instability of anti-de Sitter spacetime supports the idea that confined fluctuations eventually collapse to black holes and suggests that similar phenomena might be possible in asymptotically-flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Hirotada Okawa , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

This article proposes a generalization of the Oppenheimer-Snyder model which describes a bouncing compact object. The corrections responsible for the bounce are parameterized in a general way so as to remain agnostic about the specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-28 Jibril Ben Achour , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We investigate $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-bonnet gravity coupled to exponential electrodynamics in AdS background and found a static, spherically symmetric exact black hole solution. The horizon structure of black hole is discussed. Treating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Prosenjit Paul

In this paper, we analyze the viability of a vacuum Gauss-Bonnet cosmology by examining the dynamics of the homogeneous and anisotropic background in 4+1 dimensions. The trajectories of the system either originate from the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Chingangbam , M. Sami , P. V. Tretyakov , A. V. Toporensky

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

The loop quantum gravitational collapse of the dust ball in presence of positive cosmological constant is investigated within the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse scenario. The dust ball interior is described within the framework of loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Michał Bobula , Tomasz Pawłowski