Strong cosmic censorship for a scalar field in an Einstein-Maxwell-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black hole

It has been shown that the Christodoulou version of the strong cosmic censorship(SCC)conjecture can be violated for a scalar field in a near-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black hole.In this paper,we investigate the effects of higher derivative corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action on the validity of SCC,by considering a neutral massless scalar perturbation in 5 -and 6 -dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes.Our numerical results show that the higher derivative term plays a different role in the d=5 case than it does in the d=6 case.For d=5 ,the SCC violation region increases as the strength of the higher derivative term increases.For d=6 ,the SCC violation region first increases and then decreases as the higher derivative correction becomes stronger,and SCC can always be restored for a black hole with a fixed charge ratio when the higher derivative correction is strong enough.Finally,we find that the C^(2) version of SCC is respected in the d=6 case,but can be violated in some near-extremal regimes in the d=5 case.