A Vaidya-type radiating solution in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its application to braneworld

We consider a Vaidya-type radiating spacetime in Einstein gravity with the Gauss-Bonnet combination of quadratic curvature terms. Simply generalizing the known static black hole solutions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, we present an exact solution in arbitrary dimensions with the energy-momentum tensor given by a null fluid form. As an application, we derive an evolution equation for the “dark radiation” in the Gauss-Bonnet braneworld.