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We investigate boson stars in an $O(3)$ scalar field theory with a symmetry-breaking potential. By constructing numerically spherically symmetric solutions, we demonstrate that the model gives rise to a rich set of field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jutta Kunz , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk , Yakov Shnir

Boson stars arise as solutions of a massive complex scalar field coupled to gravity. A variety of scalar potentials, giving rise to different types of boson stars, have been studied in the literature. Here we study instead the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Pablo A. Cano , Ludovico Machet , Charlotte Myin

In this manuscript the three types of late-time behavior of spherically symmetric Boson Stars are presented, these are: stable configurations, unstable bounded that collapse to form black holes and unstable unbounded that explode. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 F. S. Guzman

We study a scalar field theory with a non-standard kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We establish the existence of compact boson stars, that is, static solutions with compact support of the full system with self-gravitation taken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 C. Adam , N. Grandi , P. Klimas , J. Sanchez-Guillen , A. Wereszczynski

We present spherically symmetric boson stars as black hole mimickers based on the power spectrum of a simple accretion disk model. The free parameters of the boson star are the mass of the boson and the fourth order self-interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-23 F. S. Guzman , J. M. Rueda-Becerril

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-12 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman

We consider rotating boson star solutions in a three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime and investigate the influence of the rotation on their properties. The mass and angular momentum of these configurations are computed by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-05 Dumitru Astefanesei , Eugen Radu

In this work we study the boson stars and boson shells in a theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical potential in the presence of a cosmological constant ${\Lambda}$ which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

Boson Stars are stationary, axially symmetric solutions of a complex scalar field theory coupled to gravity. Recently, multi-solitonic configurations interpreted as static chains of multiple Boson Stars bound by gravity and carrying no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Romain Gervalle

In this paper, we use the Killing vector method to formulate the de Sitter/Anti-de Sitter invariant special relativity (dS/AdS-SR). Through solving the Einstein equation with $\Lambda\neq 0$, the basic inertial metric for dS/AdS-SR is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-14 Mu-Lin Yan

We consider compact boson stars that arise for a V-shaped scalar field potential. They represent a one parameter family of solutions of the scaled Einstein-signum-Gordon equations. We analyze the physical properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

We present a numerical study of general relativistic boson stars in both spherical symmetry and axisymmetry. We consider both time-independent problems, involving the solution of equilibrium equations for rotating boson stars, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi-Wai Lai

We consider boson stars and black holes in scalar electrodynamics with a V-shaped scalar potential. The boson stars come in two types, having either ball-like or shell-like charge density. We analyze the properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-22 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Claus Laemmerzahl , Meike List

We construct asymptotically anti-deSitter (and deSitter) black hole solutions of Einstein-Born-Infeld theory in arbitrary dimension. We critically analyse their geometries and discuss their thermodynamic properties.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Tanay Kr. Dey

In this paper we present several set of solutions of static and spherically symmetric solitonic boson stars. Each set is characterized by the value of {\sigma} that defines the solitonic potential in the complex scalar field theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Lucas G. Collodel , Daniela D. Doneva

We study exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

The properties of selfinteracting boson stars with different scalar potentials going beyond the commonly used $\phi^4$ ansatz are studied. The scalar potential is extended to different values of the exponent $n$ of the form $V \propto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Sarah Louisa Pitz , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We present results from a study of Type I critical phenomena in the dynamics of general relativistic boson stars in spherical symmetry. The boson stars are modelled with a minimally coupled, massive complex field (with no explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-05 Chi Wai Lai , Matthew W. Choptuik

We study boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := m^{2} |\Phi|^2 +2 \lambda |\Phi|$ (where $m^2$ and $\lambda$ are positive constant parameters). This could be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We study axially symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations describing spinning gauged boson stars in a 3+1 dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetime. These smooth horizonless solutions possess an electric charge and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Olga Kichakova , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu