2020
DOI: 10.1088/1572-9494/aba242
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A note on the novel 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity

Abstract: Recently, a novel 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity has been proposed by Glavan and Lin (2020 Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 081301) by rescaling the coupling and taking the limit at the level of equations of motion. This prescription, though was shown to bring non-trivial effects for some spacetimes with particular symmetries, remains mysterious and calls for scrutiny. Indeed, there is no continuous way to take the limit in the higher D-dimensional equations of motion because the tensor indices depend on the space… Show more

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“…However, the original claim of ref. [37] is clearly in contradiction with the Lovelock theorem, and some subtleties and criticisms on the D → 4 limit were revealed in [87][88][89][90][91], concluding that there is no pure four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity [92,93]. In refs.…”
Section: Jhep12(2020)192mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the original claim of ref. [37] is clearly in contradiction with the Lovelock theorem, and some subtleties and criticisms on the D → 4 limit were revealed in [87][88][89][90][91], concluding that there is no pure four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity [92,93]. In refs.…”
Section: Jhep12(2020)192mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The horizon is rescaled with the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant α and the causal structure of the black hole radically is altered with a repulsive effect. Although this 4D EGB theory is currently under debate [11][12][13], it is worthy and meaningful to study the spherical symmetric black hole solution of 4D EGB gravity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, there are also some debates on whether the novel gravity is a consistent and well-defined theory in four dimensions [45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. Such as, Gurses et al pointed out that the novel 4D EGB gravity does not admit a description in terms of a covariantly-conserved rank-2 tensor in four dimensions and the dimensional regularization procedure is ill-defined, since one part of the GB tensor, the Lanczos-Bach tensor, always remains higher dimensional [46].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%