Infinite-derivative completions of quasitopological gravities are ghost-free, avoid strong coupling, and admit exact spherically symmetric vacuum regular black holes obeying a perturbative Birkhoff theorem.
All $2D$ generalised dilaton theories from $d\geq 4$ gravities
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We demonstrate that generic two-dimensional Horndeski theories can arise from the reduction of pure gravities in $d \geq 4$ dimensions, and therefore generic onshell configurations for the two-dimensional metric and scalar field correspond to genuine $d$-dimensional gravitational vacuum solutions. We discuss separately the two-dimensional Horndeski theories which can arise from the reduction of $d$-dimensional generally covariant gravitational actions built only from curvature invariants without covariant derivatives and possessing second-order equations of motion on $2 + (d-2)$ warped-product backgrounds. The discussion is subsequently extended to generic $d$-dimensional gravitational actions with this latter property. We establish a Birkhoff theorem for all gravitational theories whose reduction yields an integrable two-dimensional Horndeski theory, in which case static spherically symmetric solutions satisfy $g_{tt} g_{rr} = -1$ in Schwarzschild gauge whereby the metric function $g_{tt} = -f$ is determined by an algebraic equation. We therefore propose to refer to all such theories as quasi-topological gravities. These results can be used to show in reverse that any $d$-dimensional static spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime satisfying $g_{tt} g_{rr} = -1$ in Schwarzschild gauge with an invertible dependence of $f$ on the ADM mass can be reconstructed explicitly as a vacuum solution to a $d$-dimensional gravitational theory. We discuss examples of regular black holes such as the Bardeen spacetime, which could not be obtained from polynomial and non-polynomial quasi-topological gravities involving only curvature invariants without covariant derivatives.
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Charged Bardeen and Hayward metrics become singular under deformed Einstein–Maxwell equations; more stringent regularity conditions are derived and improved regular charged metrics are constructed.
Dynamical black-hole-to-white-hole transitions require a violation of the null convergence condition for the trapped region to disappear and the anti-trapped region to form.
A unified framework links the generating function for static black holes satisfying g_tt g_rr=-1 in extended quasi-topological gravity to thermodynamic mass and Wald entropy via an effective 2D dilaton theory.
Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity produce shifted electromagnetic absorption spectra and modified photon sphere radii relative to singular Tangherlini solutions, with deviations suppressed as spacetime dimensions increase.
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