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We present results from a numerical study of spherical gravitational collapse in shift symmetric Einstein dilaton Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) gravity. This modified gravity theory has a single coupling parameter that when zero reduces to general…

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We consider several different classes of asymptotically flat, rotating black objects in d = 5 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory. These are first the black holes with two equal-magnitude angular momenta, in which case extremal…

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In the context of General Relativity, black holes are not allowed to possess scalar hair, wormholes are not traversable and particle-like solutions are irregular. Therefore, in order to derive novel and physically interesting solutions that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Panagiota Kanti

We review the topic of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which has been the subject of considerable interest over the past two years. Our review begins with a general introduction to Lovelock's theorem, and the subject of Gauss-Bonnet terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Pedro Carrilho , Timothy Clifton , David J. Mulryne

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

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 a $D$-dimensional regularization approach leading to the non-trivial $(3+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) effective description of gravity was formulated which was claimed to bypass the Lovelock's theorem and avoid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-16 R. A. Konoplya , A. F. Zinhailo

In this work we study the properties of compact spheres made of a charged perfect fluid with a MIT bag model EoS for quark matter. Considering static spherically symmetric spacetime we derive the hydrostatic equilibrium equations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 Juan M. Z. Pretel , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

We investigate particle motion in the vicinity of a $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole immersed in external asymptotically uniform magnetic field. It is well known that magnetic fields can strongly affect charged particle motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Sanjar Shaymatov , Jaroslav Vrba , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

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 direct imaging of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) enables strong-field tests of gravity. We study the cosmological evolution and the black-hole shadow radius in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue

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

The Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) theory is a modified theory of gravity which include a scalar field to couple with the higher order curvature terms. It has already been constrained with various observations include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Jing Tan , Jian-dong Zhang , Hui-Min Fan , Jianwei Mei

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) model is recently restudied in order to analyze new consequences in gravitation, modifying appropriately the Einstein-Hilbert action. The consequences in EGB cosmology are mainly geometric, with higher order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , A. Hernández-Almada

In this paper, we consider black holes in the consistent Aoki-Gorji-Mukohyama theory of the four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity in the presence of Born-Infeld (BI) nonlinear electrodynamics. We study several optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Khadije Jafarzade , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Higher dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity can be particularized to a four dimensional case either using the Glavan, D. and Lin, C. type \cite{glavan2020einstein} limiting method or by the Hordenski type \cite{gurses2007gauss} metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Ritabrata Biswas , Satyajit Pal

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

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 study a number of well-motivated theories of modified gravity with the common overarching theme that they predict the existence of compact objects such as black holes and wormholes endowed with scalar hair. We compute the shadow radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Panagiota Kanti

In this paper, we investigate the shadow radius and quasinormal modes of a four-dimensional magnetically charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Bardeen black hole and point out a simple connection between them in the eikonal limit. By studying a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Shu-Jun Zhang , He-Xu Zhang , Lei Shao , Jian-Bo Deng , Xian-Ru Hu