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Universal slow fall-off to the unique AdS infinity in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-12 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, the following two propositions are proven under the dominant energy condition for the matter field in the higher-dimensional spherically symmetric spacetime in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant Λ\Lambda. First, for Λ0\Lambda\le 0 and α0\alpha \ge 0 without a fine-tuning to give a unique anti-de Sitter vacuum, where α\alpha is the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant, vanishing generalized Misner-Sharp mass is equivalent to the maximally symmetric spacetime. Under the fine-tuning, it is equivalent to the vacuum class I spacetime. Second, under the fine-tuning with α>0\alpha>0, the asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime in the higher-dimensional Henneaux-Teitelboim sense is only a special class of the vacuum class I spacetime. The latter means the universal slow fall-off to the unique anti-de Sitter infinity in the presence of physically reasonable matter.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4025,
  title  = {Universal slow fall-off to the unique AdS infinity in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity},
  author = {Hideki Maeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4025},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures; v2, revised version, references added; v3, final version to appear in Physical Review D

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