Boulware, David G. and Deser, S. (1985) String-Generated Gravity Models. Physical Review Letters, 55 (24). pp. 2656-2660. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2656. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180417-104515362
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Abstract
Expansion of supersymmetric string theory suggests that the leading quadratic curvature correction to the Einstein action is the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We show that this model has both flat and anti-de Sitter space as solutions, but that the cosmological branch is unstable, because the graviton becomes a ghost there: The theory solves its own cosmological problem. The general static spherically symmetric solution is exhibited; it is asymptotically Schwarzschild. The sign of the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient determines whether there is a normal event horizon (for the string-generated sign) or a naked singularity. We discuss the effects of higher-curvature corrections and of an explicit cosmological term on stability.
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Additional Information: | © 1985 American Physical Society. (Received 17 October 1985) This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC06-81ER40048 and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 82-01094. One of us (D.G.B.) thanks the Aspen Center for Theoretical Physics. After our paper was completed, we were informed by J. T. Wheeler that he had independently obtained the asymptotically flat branch of the "Schwarzschild" solution (12a). | ||||||
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Issue or Number: | 24 | ||||||
Classification Code: | PACS numbers: 12.25.+e, 04.20.Cv, 04.50.+h, 04.65.+e | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2656 | ||||||
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