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Charged reflecting shells supporting non-minimally coupled massless scalar field configurations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-06-16 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study {\it analytically} the physical and mathematical properties of spatially regular massless scalar field configurations which are non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field of a spherically symmetric charged reflecting shell. In particular, the Klein-Gordon wave equation for the composed charged-reflecting-shell-nonminimally-coupled-linearized-massless-scalar-field system is solved analytically. Interestingly, we explicitly prove that the discrete resonance spectrum {Rs(Q,α,l;n)}n=1n=\{R_{\text{s}}(Q,\alpha,l;n)\}^{n=\infty}_{n=1} of charged shell radii that can support the non-minimally coupled massless scalar fields can be expressed in a remarkably compact form in terms of the characteristic zeros of the Bessel function (here QQ, α\alpha, and ll are respectively the electric charge of the central supporting shell, the dimensionless non-minimal coupling parameter of the Maxwell-scalar theory, and the angular harmonic index of the supported scalar configuration).

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@article{arxiv.2106.05736,
  title  = {Charged reflecting shells supporting non-minimally coupled massless scalar field configurations},
  author = {Shahar Hod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05736},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages