A study of some cylindrically symmetric solutions in f(R, G) gravity

Abstract

In this paper, we present the cylindrically symmetric solutions in a well-known modified theory, namely f(R, G) gravity. After driving the complete system of field equations, six different families of exact solutions using a viable f(R, G) gravity model have been discussed. Moreover, we have investigated the well-known Levi–Civita solution in modified gravity for the model f(R, G) = R2 + αGn for some suitable values of model parameters n and α. Null energy conditions are also calculated for all the obtained solutions. Some regions are observed where the null energy condition is violated, indicating the existence of cylindrical wormholes.