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In this work, we have constructed anisotropic bosonic dark-matter star (DMS) solutions in the context of a regularized four-dimensional Einstein$-$Gauss$-$Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity theory. Using dimensional regularization, we solve modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Mohamamd Mazhari

Recently, a class of Gauss-Bonnet extended Starobinsky gravity was proposed, allowing black holes to carry ghost-free massive scalar hair for the first time without requiring additional matter fields. This intriguing feature offers a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Zhonghai Liu , Ziyi Li , Liang Liang , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu

We set up an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in four dimensions, based on the recent formulation of pure gravity with extra dimensions of vanishing metrical length [1]. In absence of torsion, the effective field equations depend only on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-11 Sandipan Sengupta

We obtain a class of new anisotropic relativistic solution in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity with Finch-Skea metric in hydrostatic equilibrium. The relativistic solutions are employed to construct anisotropic stellar models for strange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Sagar Dey , Bikash Chandra Paul

Neutron star models in perturbative $f(R)$ gravity are considered with realistic equations of state. In particular, we consider the FPS, SLy and other equations of state and a case of piecewise equation of state for stars with quark cores.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Artyom V. Astashenok , Salvatore Capozziello , Sergei D. Odintsov

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

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

In the present paper we study models of neutron stars in a class of extended scalar-tensor Gauss-Bonnet (ESTGB) theories for which the scalar degree of freedom is exited only in the strong curvature regime. We show that in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

As current and future experiments probe strong gravitational regimes around neutron stars and black holes, it is desirable to have theoretically sound alternatives to general relativity against which to test observations. Here we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Christopher Eling , Ted Jacobson , M. Coleman Miller

A simple generalization to Einstein's general relativity (GR) was recently proposed which allows a correction term $T_{\alpha\beta}T^{\alpha\beta}$ in the action functional of the theory. This theory is called Energy-Momentum Squared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Nasrin Nari , Mahmood Roshan

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 consider rapidly rotating black holes and neutron stars in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGBd) theory and determine their quadrupole moments, which receive a contribution from the dilaton. The quadrupole moment of EGBd black holes can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-08 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Sindy Mojica

In this work, we analyze the Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) theory of gravity in a cosmological context using the formalism of dynamical systems. We obtain the equations of motion of the theory and introduce an appropriate set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Miguel A. S. Pinto , João Luís Rosa

We investigate static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity non-minimally coupled to a massless real scalar field, both in vacuum and in the presence of fermionic matter. Focusing on a specific quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Roberto D. Alba Q. , Javier Chagoya , Armando A. Roque

In this work, we explore the impact of higher dimensional spacetime on the stellar structure and thermodynamic properties of neutron stars. Utilizing the density-dependent relativistic hadron field theory, we introduce modifications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Debabrata Deb , Manjari Bagchi , Sarmistha Banik

We study the stability of an asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric naked singularity spacetime in the novel four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. The four dimensional EGB black hole for large enough values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Avijit Chowdhury , Saraswati Devi , Sayan Chakrabarti

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

We investigate the impact of hyperons and phase transition to quark matter on the structural properties of neutron stars within the regularized four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity (4DEGB). We employ the density-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Grigoris Panotopoulos

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

The masses and radii of neutron stars are discussed in general relativity and scalar-tensor theory of gravity and the differences are compared with the current uncertainties stemming from the nuclear equation of state in the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 F. J. Fattoyev