VACUUM SOLUTIONS WITH NONTRIVIAL BOUNDARIES FOR THE EINSTEIN-GAUSS-BONNET THEORY

The classification of certain class of static solutions for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in vacuum is presented. The space like section of the class of metrics under consideration is a warped product of the real line with a nontrivial base manifold. For arbitrary values of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling, the base manifold must be Einstein with an additional scalar restriction. The geometry of the boundary can be relaxed only when the Gauss-Bonnet coupling is related with the cosmological and Newton constants, so that the theory admits a unique maximally symmetric solution. This additional freedom in the boundary metric allows the existence of three main branches of geometries in the bulk, containing new black holes and wormholes in vacuum.