Cosmology in 5D and 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Abstract

We consider the five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which can be obtained by means of an apropriate choice of coefficients in the five-dimensional Lanczos-Lovelock gravity theory. The Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet field equations for the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric are found as well as some of their solutions. A four-dimensional gravity action is obtained from the Gauss-Bonnet gravity using the Randall-Sundrum compactification procedure and then it is studied the implications of the compactification procedure in the cosmological solutions. The same procedure is used to obtain gravity in four dimensions from the fivedimensional AdS-Chern-Simons gravity to then study some cosmological solutions. Some aspects of the construction of the four-dimensional action gravity are considered in an Appendix.