Choptuik's Critical Phenomenon in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

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We investigate the effects of higher order curvature corrections to Einstein's Gravity on the critical phenomenon near the black hole threshold, namely the Choptuik phenomenon.

• We simulate numerically a five dimensional spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of massless scalar field in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity towards a black hole formation threshold.
• When the curvature is sufficiently large the additional higher order terms, affect the evolution of the whole system.
• Since high curvature characterizes the region when the critical behavior takes place this critical behavior is destroyed.