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We comment on the recently introduced Gauss-Bonnet gravity in four dimensions. We argue that it does not make sense to consider this theory to be defined by a set of $D\to 4$ solutions of the higher-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Robie A. Hennigar , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann , Christopher Pollack

Cosmic evolution is the most sensational topic among researchers of modern cosmology. This article explores cosmic evolution in 4D Einstein Gauss Bonnet gravity, focusing on mass accretion of compact objects (black holes and wormholes) by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Puja Mukherjee , Himanshu Chaudhary , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

Einstein field equations are second-order differential equations. In this paper, we propose a new gravity theory with pure fourth-order field equations, which we call 4G for brevity. We discuss the applications of 4G in cosmology,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Shuxun Tian

Modified gravity theories with the Gauss-Bonnet term $G=R^2-4R^{\mu\nu}R_{\mu\nu}+R^{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}R_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}$ have recently gained a lot of attention as a possible explanation of dark energy. We perform a thorough phase space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-01 Shuang-Yong Zhou , Edmund J. Copeland , Paul M. Saffin

Recent researches of the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity have attracted great attention. In this paper, we investigate the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for a novel $4D$ charged EGB black hole with test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-04 Si-Jiang Yang , Jun-Jie Wan , Jing Chen , Jie Yang , Yong-Qiang Wang

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 recent times there is a surge of interest in constructing Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, in the limit $D \to 4 $, of the $D$-dimensional EGB gravity. Interestingly, the static spherically symmetric solutions in the various proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar

In the framework of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs), first produced by remote compact astrophysical sources and then propagating through the flat homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Jared Fier , Henry Han , Bowen Li , Kai Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang

We study the motion of charged and spinning particles and photons in the $4D$ charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole vicinity. We determine the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for test particles. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Farruh Atamurotov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjay Siwach

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

In this paper we have analytically investigated holographic superconductors in four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity background. Recently the novel four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity has been formulated by rescaling the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Debabrata Ghorai , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We study the predictions for structure formation in an induced gravity dark energy model with a quartic potential. By developing a dedicated Einstein-Boltzmann code, we study self-consistently the dynamics of homogeneous cosmology and of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 Caterina Umiltà , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Daniela Paoletti

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

Dark energy stars research is an issue of great interest since recent astronomical observations with respect to measurements in distant supernovas, cosmic microwave background and weak gravitational lensing confirm that the universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-18 M. Malaver , H. D. Kasmaei , R. Iyer , S. Sadhukhan , A. Kar

Among the models addressing the Hubble tension, those introducing a dynamical dark component around recombination have been the most promising thus far. Their study has highlighted that, in fact, cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Gen Ye , Alessandra Silvestri

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

Recently it has been shown that the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, by rescaling the coupling constant as $\alpha/(D-4)$ and taking the limit $D \rightarrow 4$ at the level of the equations of motion, becomes nontrivially ghost-free in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Dharm Veer Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj

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 derive the conformal constraints satisfied by classical vertices of a (Einstein) Gauss-Bonnet theory around flat space, in general dimensions and at $d=4$ (4d EGB). In $4d$ EGB they are obtained by a singular limit of the integral of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Claudio Corianò , Mario Cretì , Stefano Lionetti , Matteo Maria Maglio

General Relativity is expected to break down in the high-curvature regime. Beyond an effective field theory treatment with higher-order operators, it is important to identify consistent theories with higher-curvature terms at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Fabrizio Corelli , Paolo Pani , Andrea P. Sanna