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We study slowly rotating black hole solutions in the six independent theories of Quartic Generalized Quasi-topological Gravity in four dimensions. Unlike in the static case for which all six theories yield the same solution, for rotating black holes we obtain distinct results for five out of the six theories. Working to leading order in the rotation parameter, we find that the equations characterizing these black holes can be reduced to second order for each theory, similar to what has already been done for Einstein Cubic Gravity. We construct approximate and numerical solutions to these equations, and study how physical properties of the solutions such as the angular velocity, photon sphere, black hole shadow, and innermost stable circular orbit are modified, working to leading order in the coupling constant.
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Marks, G.A., Mann, R.B. & Sheppard, D. Slowly rotating black holes in quartic generalized quasi-topological gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)014
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