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hep-th2020★ 15 cited

Multicenter solutions in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity

Gonzalo J. Olmo, Emanuele Orazi, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We find multicenter (Majumdar-Papapetrou type) solutions of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity coupled to electromagnetic fields governed by a Born-Infeld-like Lagrangian. We c…

hep-th2019★ 35 cited

New scalar compact objects in Ricci-based gravity theories

Victor I. Afonso, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Emanuele Orazi +1

Taking advantage of a previously developed method, which allows to map solutions of General Relativity into a broad family of theories of gravity based on the Ricci tensor (Ricci-b…

hep-th2017★ 31 cited

On gravitational waves in Born-Infeld inspired non-singular cosmologies

Jose Beltran Jimenez, Lavinia Heisenberg, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

We study the evolution of gravitational waves for non-singular cosmological solutions within the framework of Born-Infeld inspired gravity theories, with special emphasis on the Ed…

hep-th2017★ 81 cited

What is a singular black hole beyond General Relativity?

Cecilia Bejarano, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Exploring the characterization of singular black hole spacetimes, we study the relation between energy density, curvature invariants, and geodesic completeness using a quadratic $f…

hep-th2016★ 20 cited

Geodesically complete BTZ-type solutions of Born-Infeld gravity

D. Bazeia, L. Losano, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

We study Born-Infeld gravity coupled to a static, nonrotating electric field in dimensions and find exact analytical solutions. Two families of such solutions represent geode…

hep-th2016★ 16 cited

Nonsingular black holes in Palatini extensions of General Relativity

Gonzalo J. Olmo

An introduction to extended theories of gravity formulated in metric-affine (or Palatini) spaces is presented. Focusing on spherically symmetric configurations with electric fields…

hep-th2016★ 30 cited

Impact of curvature divergences on physical observers in a wormhole space-time with horizons

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, A. Sanchez-Puente

The impact of curvature divergences on physical observers in a black hole space-time which, nonetheless, is geodesically complete is investigated. This space-time is an exact solut…

hep-th2015★ 20 cited

Robustness of braneworld scenarios against tensorial perturbations

D. Bazeia, L. Losano, R. Menezes +2

Inspired by the peculiarities of the effective geometry of crystalline structures, we reconsider thick brane scenarios from a metric-affine perspective. We show that for a rather g…

hep-th2015★ 100 cited

Nonsingular Black Holes in Theories

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We study the structure of a family of static, spherically symmetric space-times generated by an anisotropic fluid and governed by a particular type of theory. We find that f…

hep-th2015★ 92 cited

Geodesic completeness in a wormhole spacetime with horizons

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, A. Sanchez-Puente

The geometry of a spacetime containing a wormhole generated by a spherically symmetric electric field is investigated in detail. These solutions arise in high-energy extensions of…

hep-th2015★ 18 cited

The quantum, the geon, and the crystal

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

Effective geometries arising from a hypothetical discrete structure of space-time can play an important role in the understanding of the gravitational physics beyond General Relati…

hep-th2015★ 25 cited

Classical resolution of black hole singularities in arbitrary dimension

D. Bazeia, L. Losano, Gonzalo J. Olmo +2

A metric-affine approach is employed to study higher-dimensional modified gravity theories involving different powers and contractions of the Ricci tensor. It is shown that the fie…

hep-th2015★ 54 cited

Classical resolution of black hole singularities via wormholes

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, A. Sanchez-Puente

In certain extensions of General Relativity, wormholes generated by spherically symmetric electric fields can resolve black hole singularities without necessarily removing curvatur…

hep-th2015★ 23 cited

Gauss-Bonnet black holes supported by a nonlinear electromagnetic field

D. Rubiera-Garcia

We study -dimensional charged static spherically symmetric black hole solutions in Gauss-Bonnet theory coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics defined as arbitrary functions of the…

hep-th2014★ 46 cited

Crystal clear lessons on the microstructure of space-time and modified gravity

Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We argue that a microscopic structure for space-time such as that expected in a quantum foam scenario, in which microscopic wormholes and other topological structures should play a…

hep-th2014★ 44 cited

Thick brane in gravity with Palatini dynamics

D. Bazeia, L. Losano, R. Menezes +2

This work deals with modified gravity in five dimensional spacetime. We study a thick Palatini brane, that is, a braneworld scenario described by an anti-de Sitter warped ge…

hep-th2014★ 80 cited

Born-Infeld gravity and its functional extensions

Sergei D. Odintsov, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We investigate the dynamics of a family of functional extensions of the (Eddington-inspired) Born-Infeld gravity theory, constructed with the inverse of the metric and the Ricci te…

hep-th2014★ 57 cited

Brane-world and loop cosmology from a gravity-matter coupling perspective

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We show that the effective brane-world and the loop quantum cosmology background expansion histories can be reproduced from a modified gravity perspective in terms of an gra…

hep-th2014★ 35 cited

Black holes in five-dimensional Palatini gravity and implications for the AdS/CFT correspondence

D. Bazeia, L. Losano, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

We show that theories having second-order field equations in the context of higher-dimensional modified gravity are not restricted to the family of Lovelock Lagrangians, but can al…

hep-th2014★ 33 cited

Dynamical generation of wormholes with charged fluids in quadratic Palatini gravity

Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jesus Martinez-Asencio, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

The dynamical generation of wormholes within an extension of General Relativity (GR) containing (Planck's scale-suppressed) Ricci-squared terms is considered. The theory is formula…

hep-th2014★ 40 cited

Microscopic wormholes and the geometry of entanglement

Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

It has recently been suggested that Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridges can be interpreted as maximally entangled states of two black holes that form a complex Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR…

hep-th2013★ 5 cited

Quadratic Palatini gravity and stable black hole remnants

Francisco S. N. Lobo, Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We present a four-dimensional Planck-scale corrected quadratic extension of General Relativity (GR) where no a priori relation between metric and connection is imposed (Palatini fo…

hep-th2013★ 25 cited

Planck scale physics and topology change through an exactly solvable model

Francisco S. N. Lobo, Jesus Martinez-Asencio, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

We consider the collapse of a charged radiation fluid in a Planck-suppressed quadratic extension of General Relativity (GR) formulated à la Palatini. We obtain exact analytical sol…

hep-th2013★ 128 cited

Geonic black holes and remnants in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, Helios Sanchis-Alepuz

We show that electrically charged solutions within the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld theory of gravity replace the central singularity by a wormhole supported by the electric fiel…