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Towards an Analytic Construction of the Wavefunction of Boson Stars

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Light scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. The profile of boson stars in the Newtonian limit is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equations. We present a semi-analytic solution to these equations and construct the profile of boson stars formed by a non-interacting scalar field. Our solution is stable with respect to numerical errors and has accuracy better than 10610^{-6} over the entire range.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04272,
  title  = {Towards an Analytic Construction of the Wavefunction of Boson Stars},
  author = {Felix Kling and Arvind Rajaraman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04272},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages