EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 80, no. 8, article no. 695
Abstract
We study charged black hole solutions in 4-dimensional (4D) Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell theory to the linearized perturbation level. We first compute the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio. We then demonstrate how bulk causal structure analysis imposes an upper bound on the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant in the AdS space. Causality constrains the value of Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant alpha(GB) to be bounded by alpha(GB) ˂= 0 as D -˃ 4.