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Self-Gravitating Spherical Solutions of the non-minimally coupled non-Abelian Higgs Model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-03-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Motivated by the Higgs Inflation scenario, we study static spherically-symmetric solutions of the non-Abelian Higgs model coupled non-minimally to Gravity. We find solutions for the self-gravitating sphaleron as well as monopole-like solutions and study the impact of the non-minimal coupling on their properties. Finally we discuss shortly the possibility that these solutions interact gravitationally with star-like objects like boson stars.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0478,
  title  = {Self-Gravitating Spherical Solutions of the non-minimally coupled non-Abelian Higgs Model},
  author = {Y. Brihaye and Y. Verbin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0478},
  year   = {2015}
}