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The close limit approximation of binary black hole is a powerful method to study gravitational-wave emission from highly non-linear geometries. In this work, we use it as a tool to model black hole spacetimes in theories of gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Lorenzo Annulli

We study static black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) gravity with a massive scalar field as an example of higher curvature gravity. The scalar mass introduces an additional scale and leads to a strong suppression of the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Iris van Gemeren , Tanja Hinderer , Stefan Vandoren

Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a self-interacting scalar field is investigated in the static and isotropic situation. We explicitly construct in partially closed form a new black-hole solution with exponentially decaying scalar hair.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Olaf Bechmann , Olaf Lechtenfeld

We study the instability of Schwarzschild black holes and the appearance of scalarized solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity performing a time-domain analysis in a perturbative scheme. First we consider a quadratic coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Fabrizio Corelli

We study here the evolution of a massless scalar field in a spacetime, developing from a regular initial spacelike surface. The Einstein equations and regularity and boundary conditions governing the same are specified. Both homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-13 Swastik Bhattacharya , Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S. Joshi

The paper discusses a collapse of a self-interacting electrically charged scalar field in the decoupling limit of the dilatonic Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The emerging spacetimes were either non-singular or singular and containing black holes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Anna Nakonieczna , Łukasz Nakonieczny

We holographically investigate the scalarization in the Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We find that instability exists for both Schwarzschild-AdS and Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black holes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Hong Guo , Stella Kiorpelidi , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Bin Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

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

We consider three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant in the presence of a scalar and an Abelian gauge field. Both fields are conformally coupled to gravity, the scalar field through a nonminimal coupling with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Marcela Cardenas , Oscar Fuentealba , Cristian Martinez

We develop a covariant differential-form framework to define scalar charges for stationary, asymptotically flat black holes in $4$--dimensional Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a general scalar coupling function. Contracting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Romina Ballesteros , Marcela Cárdenas , Eric Lescano

We study the axial quasinormal modes of hairy black holes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with massive self-interacting scalar field. Two coupling functions of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant are adopted with one of them leading to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Kalin V. Staykov , Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Daniela D. Doneva , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We present a systematic exploration of the loss of predictivity in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) gravity. We first formulate a gauge covariant method of characterizing the breakdown of the hyperbolicity of the equations of motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Abhishek Hegade K R , Justin L. Ripley , Nicolás Yunes

The black hole scalarization in a special Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity has been widely investigated in recent years. Especially, the spontaneous scalarization of scalar-free black hole in de-Sitter (dS) spacetime possesses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-07 Zhen-Hao Yang , Guoyang Fu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity where a new scalar degree of freedom couples to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can exhibit the phenomenon of spontaneous black hole scalarization. These theories admit both the classic black holes predicted by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Hector O. Silva , Caio F. B. Macedo , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Jeremy Sakstein , Emanuele Berti

We perform an in-depth analysis of rotating scalarized black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where scalarization is induced by the spacetime curvature. Our results show that even for very large spins, the scalar charge can reach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We identify a class of scalar-tensor theories with coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant that exhibit spontaneous scalarization for both black holes and compact stars. In particular, these theories formally admit all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Hector O. Silva , Jeremy Sakstein , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Emanuele Berti

In the present paper we consider a class of extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet (ESTGB) theories for which the scalar degree of freedom is excited only in the extreme curvature regime. We show that in the mentioned class of ESTGB theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

A class of exact static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a massless scalar field has been obtained in harmonic coordinates of the Minkowski space-time. For each value of the coupling constant $a$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Slava G. Turyshev

In the presence of appropriate non-minimal couplings between a scalar field and the curvature squared Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes (BHs) can spontaneously scalarize, becoming a preferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , D. H. Tchrakian

We derive a novel class of four-dimensional black hole solutions in Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled with a scalar field in presence of Maxwell electrodynamics. In order to derive such solutions, we assume the ansatz $ g_{tt}\neq g_{rr}{}^{-1}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Salvatore Capozziello , G. G. L. Nashed