Gauss-Bonnet as effective cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/57/4/15zbMATH Open1247.83309arXiv1109.6748OpenAlexW3121921751MaRDI QIDQ2913645FDOQ2913645

Liu Zhao, Kun Meng

Publication date: 26 September 2012

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that Gauss-Bonnet terms in higher dimensional gravity can produce an effective cosmological constant. We add extra examples to this picture by presenting explicitly two branches of accelerating vacuum solutions to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravities with a bare cosmological constant in 5 and 6 dimensions. Both branches of solutions are of constant curvature and the effective cosmological constants are independent of the acceleration parameter. One branch (the "-" branch) of the solutions is well defined in the limit when the Gauss-Bonnet parameter approaches zero, in which case the effective cosmological constant becomes identical with the bare value, while the other (i.e. the "+") branch is singular in the same limit, and beyond this singular limit, the effective cosmological constant is inversely proportional to the Gauss-Bonnet parameter with a negative constant of proportionality when the bare value vanishes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6748

zbMATH Keywords

vacuumGauss-Bonnetproper acceleration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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