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Extensions of Einstein gravity with quadratic curvature terms in the action arise in most effective theories of quantised gravity, including string theory. This article explores the set of static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 H. Lü , A. Perkins , C. N. Pope , K. S. Stelle

We study static spherically symmetric Kundt solutions to the vacuum field equations of quadratic gravity with a cosmological constant, as well as specific models of six-derivative gravity. In quadratic gravity, we identify all solutions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Breno L. Giacchini , Ivan Kolář , Vojtěch Pravda , Alena Pravdová

We study exact static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in generic six-derivative gravity (i.e., without assuming specific relations between the coupling constants). Using modified Schwarzschild coordinates, we systematically classify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Breno L. Giacchini , Ivan Kolář

We find new static, spherically symmetric, and asymptotically flat vacuum solutions without horizon in Starobinsky's quadratic f(R) gravity. We systematically classify these solutions by an asymptotic analysis around the origin and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Enrique Hernandéz-Lorenzo , Christian F. Steinwachs

Quantum-gravitational effective actions with higher-derivative and non-local operators are expected to regularize the singularities of general relativity. Here we focus on quasi-local Einstein-Weyl gravity and obtain a classification of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Johanna Borissova , Breno L. Giacchini , Aaron Held

For specifically coupled values of the quadratic gravity parameters, we present a fully explicit static spherically symmetric solution. It contains the central singularity surrounded by the black-hole or the cosmological horizon for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Simon Knoska , David Kofron , Robert Svarc

We obtain the static spherically symmetric solutions of a class of gravitational models whose additions to the General Relativity (GR) action forbid Ricci-flat, in particular, Schwarzschild geometries. These theories are selected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 S. Deser , O. Sarioglu , B. Tekin

We study static, spherically symmetric vacuum solutions to Quadratic Gravity, extending considerably our previous Rapid Communication [Phys. Rev. D 98, 021502(R) (2018)] on this topic. Using a conformal-to-Kundt metric ansatz, we arrive at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova

In this paper, we investigate the numerical solutions for spherically symmetric situations in Einstein cubic gravity. In addition to the previously found black hole solutions, we uncover a new class of solutions that lack horizons. Due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Yong-Qiang Wang

We study spherically symmetric static solutions of the most general sixth-derivative gravity using series expansions. Specifically, we prove that the only solutions of the complete theory (i.e., with generic coupling constants) that possess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Breno L. Giacchini , Ivan Kolář

Gravitational theories generated from Lagrangians of the form f(R) are considered. The spherically symmetric solutions to these equations are discussed, paying particular attention to features that differ from the standard Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Clifton

We study spherically symmetric configurations of the quadratic $f(R)$ gravity in the Einstein frame. In case of a purely gravitational system, we have determined the global qualitative behavior of the metric and the scalaron field for all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 V. I. Zhdanov , O. S. Stashko , Yu. V. Shtanov

We study static spherically symmetric solutions of high derivative gravity theories, with 4, 6, 8 and even 10 derivatives. Except for isolated points in the space of theories with more than 4 derivatives, only solutions that are nonsingular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Bob Holdom

We study static spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein gravity plus an action polynomial in the Ricci scalar, $R$, of arbitrary degree, $n$, in arbitrary dimension, $D$. The global properties of all such solutions are derived by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 S. Mignemi , D. L. Wiltshire

Utilizing various gauges of the radial coordinate, we give a General Relativistic (GR) description of static spherically symmetric spacetimes with a massive point source and vacuum outside this singularity. We show that in GR there exists a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Plamen P. Fiziev

Spherically symmetric static empty space solutions are studied in f(R) theories of gravity. We reduce the set of modified Einstein's equations to a single equation and show how one can construct exact solutions in different f(R) models. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tuomas Multamaki , Iiro Vilja

Higher-order theories of gravity have received much attention from several areas including quantum gravity, string theory and cosmology. This paper proposes a higher-order gravity whose action includes all curvature scalar terms up to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-04 G. Rodrigues-da-Silva , L. G. Medeiros

In this work we investigate analytic static and spherically symmetric solutions of a generalized theory of gravity in the Einstein-Cartan formalism. The main goal consists in analyzing the behavior of the solutions under the influence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 F. A. Silveira , R. F. Sobreiro , A. A. Tomaz

We investigate the vacuum and charged spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein equations on cosmological background. The background metric is not flat, but curved, with constant - curvature spatial sections. Both vacuum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Tentyukov

In this work we study static spherically symmetric solutions of effective field equations related to local and nonlocal higher-derivative gravity models, based on their associated effective delta sources. This procedure has been applied to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Tibério de Paula Netto , Breno L. Giacchini , Nicolò Burzillà , Leonardo Modesto
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