How does gravity save or kill Q-balls?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-05-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We explore stability of gravitating Q-balls with potential via catastrophe theory, as an extension of our previous work on Q-balls with potential . In flat spacetime Q-balls with in the thick-wall limit are unstable and there is a minimum charge , where Q-balls with are nonexistent. If we take self-gravity into account, on the other hand, there exist stable Q-balls with arbitrarily small charge, no matter how weak gravity is. That is, gravity saves Q-balls with small charge. We also show how stability of Q-balls changes as gravity becomes strong.
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@article{arxiv.1105.2932,
title = {How does gravity save or kill Q-balls?},
author = {Takashi Tamaki and Nobuyuki Sakai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.2932},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
10 pages, 10 figures