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AdS spacetime has been shown numerically to be unstable against a large class of arbitrarily small perturbations. In [1], the authors presented a preliminary study of the effects on stability of changing the local dynamics by adding a Gauss-Bonnet term to the Einstein action. Here we provide further details as well as new results with improved numerical methods. In particular, we elucidate new structure in Choptuik scaling plots. We also provide evidence of chaotic behavior at the transition between immediate horizon formation and horizon formation after the matter pulse reflects from the AdS conformal boundary. Finally, we present data suggesting the formation of naked singularities in spacetimes with ADM mass below the algebraic bound for black hole formation.
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Deppe, N., Kolly, A., Frey, A.R. et al. Black hole formation in AdS Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 87 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2016)087
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