https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816804014
Colliding scalar pulses in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
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Department of Information Systems, Osaka Institute of Technology, Hirakata City, Osaka 573-0196, Japan
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Department of System Design, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka City, Osaka 530-8568, Japan
* e-mail: hisaaki.shinkai@oit.ac.jp
** e-mail: takashi.torii@oit.ac.jp
Published online: 9 January 2018
We numerically investigated how the nonlinear dynamics depends on the dimensionality and on the higher-order curvature corrections in the form of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) terms, with a model of colliding scalar pulses in plane-symmetric space-time. We observed that a collision of large scalar pulses will produce a large-curvature region, of which the magnitude depends on αGB. The normal corrections (αGB > 0) work for avoiding the appearance of singularity, although it is inevitable.
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