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We establish an exact bidirectional map between interior Friedmann density of a collapsing star and exterior static spherically symmetric metric in generalized Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse. This reduces Einstein's differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 H. Khodabakhshi , Zhi-Chao Li , H. Lu , F. Shojai

A (3+1)-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet effective description of gravity has been recently formulated as the $D \to 4$ limit of the higher dimensional field equations after the rescaling of the coupling constant. This approach has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

In this study we obtain interior solutions and investigate structural properties of isotropic compact stars in the framework of four-dimensional regularized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4DEGB) gravity. For stellar matter content, we adopt a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 G. Panotopoulos , Á. Rincón , I. Lopes

Low energy limits of a string theory suggest that the gravity action should include quadratic and higher-order curvature terms, in the form of dimensionally continued Gauss-Bonnet densities. Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet is a natural extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 Sushant G. Ghosh

This study investigates the modeling of anisotropic magnetized static neutron stars within the framework of five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (5D EGB) gravity. While Einstein's gravity has traditionally been employed to examine neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Mohammad Mazhari

In this work we study static black holes in the regularized 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity; a shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theory that belongs to the Horndeski class. This theory features a simple black hole solution that can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Pedro Carrilho , Timothy Clifton , David J. Mulryne

We study Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a bumblebee field which leads to a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in the gravitational sector. We obtain an exact black hole solution and a cosmological solution in four dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Chikun Ding , Xiongwen Chen , Xiangyun Fu

We consider gravitational collapse in the recently proposed 4D limit of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show that for collapse of a sphere made of homogeneous dust the process is qualitatively similar to the case of pure Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-04 Daniele Malafarina , Bobir Toshmatov , Naresh Dadhich

The EGB 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 $4D$. Several ways have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Arun Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is a theoretically well-motivated alternative theory of gravity emerging as a low-energy 4-dimensional model from heterotic string theory. Its rotating black hole solutions are known numerically and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-01 Hao Zhang , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

Einstein-Maxwell-Gauss-Bonnet-axion theory in $4$-dimensional spacetime is investigated in this paper through a "Kaluza-Klein-like" process. Dual to systems at finite temperature with background magnetic field on three dimensions, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-04 Yi-Li Wang , Xian-Hui Ge

Recently, a non-trivial $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as $\alpha/(D-4)$, was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shafqat Ul Islam , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The recent discovery of the novel four-dimensional static and spherically symmetric Gauss-Bonnet black hole provides a promising bed to test Gauss-Bonnet gravity by using astronomical observations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Here we consider the generalized Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a star into a four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole as well as a class of regular black holes labeled by the polytropic index of the stellar matter. We then analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Sadeghi , F. Shojai , F. Bahmani

Virtual transitions in a Casimir-like configuration are utilized to probe quantum aspects of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity. This study employs a quantum optics-based approach, wherein an Unruh-DeWitt detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Syed Masood

A new solution for the endpoint of gravitational collapse is proposed. By extending the concept of Bose-Einstein condensation to gravitational systems, a cold, compact object with an interior de Sitter condensate phase and an exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

The regularized four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet model has been recently proposed in [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{124}, 081301 (2020)] whose formulation is different of the Einstein theory, allowing us to bypass the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-26 M. A. Cuyubamba

The Einstein- Gauss- Bonnet (EGB) gravity is an important modification of the Einstein theory of gravity and, for many gravitational phenomena, the Gauss- Bonnet (GB) correction term leads to drastic differences. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-05 Ayan Chatterjee , Avirup Ghosh , Suresh Jaryal

We study the properties of compact objects in a particular 4D Horndeski theory originating from higher dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Remarkably, an exact vacuum solution is known. This compact object differs from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Christos Charmousis , Antoine Lehébel , Evangelos Smyrniotis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

We develop a novel approach to the dark matter halos in the context of 4 dimensional Einstein--scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity to reproduce the flat rotation curves of galaxies. Moreover, the Gauss-Bonnet coupling describes the interior…

General Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 M. Bousder