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No hair for spherically symmetric neutral reflecting stars: nonminimally coupled massive scalar fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-05-13 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recent no-hair theorems have revealed the intriguing fact that horizonless stars with compact reflecting surfaces {\it cannot} support non-linear matter configurations made of scalar, vector, and tensor fields. In the present paper we extend the regime of validity of these no-hair theorems by explicitly proving that spherically symmetric compact reflecting stars cannot support static configurations made of {\it massive} scalar fields with {\it non}-minimal coupling to gravity. Interestingly, our no-hair theorem is valid for {\it generic} values of the dimensionless field-curvature coupling parameter ξ\xi.

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@article{arxiv.2005.03489,
  title  = {No hair for spherically symmetric neutral reflecting stars: nonminimally coupled massive scalar fields},
  author = {Shahar Hod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03489},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.05903, arXiv:1709.01933