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A nonsingular emergent universe cosmology can be realized by a nonconventional spinor field as first developed in \cite{Cai:2012yf}. We study the mechanisms of generating scale-invariant primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbation…

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We study spontaneous scalarization in Scalar-Tensor boson stars. We find that scalarization does not occur in stars whose bosons have no self-interaction. We introduce a quartic self-interaction term into the boson Lagrangian and show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Whinnett

In this paper, we study the spontaneous scalarization of an extended, self-gravitating system which is static, cylindrically symmetric and possesses electromagnetic fields. We demonstrate that a real massive scalar field condenses on this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Yves Brihaye , Rogério Capobianco , Betti Hartmann

The spin connections of the Dirac field have three ingredients that are connected with the Ricci rotations, the Maxwell field, and an axial field which is coupled to the axial current. I demonstrate that the axial field provides an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Makhlin

When coupling fermions to gravity, torsion is naturally induced. We consider the possibility that fermion bilinears can act as a source for torsion, altering the dynamics of the early universe such that the big bang gets replaced with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Shane Farnsworth , Jean-Luc Lehners , Taotao Qiu

Boson stars in zero-, one-, and two-node equilibrium states are modeled numerically within the framework of Scalar-Tensor Gravity. The complex scalar field is taken to be both massive and self-interacting. Configurations are formed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Comer , Hisa-aki Shinkai

Scalar-tensor gravity models are among the prime candidates to explain cosmic acceleration, and compact stars provide unique laboratories for testing such theories. Predictions of scalar-tensor gravity in compact stars can be examined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei , Adamu Issifu

Unlike general relativity, the scalar gravitational waves can be excited due to the radial oscillations in scalar-tensor gravity. To examine the scalar gravitational waves in scalar-tensor gravity, we derive the evolution equations of the…

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In this work, we present a new type of scalar clouds supported by spherically symmetric horizonless compact objects in the scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory. Unlike the previous spontaneous scalarization that is triggered by the tachyonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Shao-Jun Zhang

Quantum fields in compact stars can be amplified due to a semiclassical instability. This generic feature of scalar fields coupled to curvature may affect the birth and the equilibrium structure of relativistic stars. We point out that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Emanuele Berti , Jocelyn Read , Marcelo Salgado

We study torsional oscillations of neutron stars in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity using the relativistic Cowling approximation. We compute unperturbed neutron star models adopting realistic equations of state for the neutron star's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-24 Hector O. Silva , Hajime Sotani , Emanuele Berti , Michael Horbatsch

We consider the Einstein-Dirac system for a massive field, which describes the evolution of self-gravitating massive spinor fields, and we investigate the global evolution problem, when the initial data set is sufficiently close to data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma , Weidong Zhang

Spinors are mathematical objects susceptible to the spacetime characteristics upon which they are defined. Not all spacetimes admit spinor structure; when it does, it may have more than one spinor structure, depending on topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 J. M. Hoff da Silva

Gravitational theories with multiple scalar fields coupled to the metric and each other --- a natural extension of the well studied single-scalar-tensor theories --- are interesting phenomenological frameworks to describe deviations from…

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We investigate the instability of charged massive scalar fields in Kerr-Newman spacetime. Due to the super-radiant effect of the background geometry, the bound state of the scalar field is unstable, and its amplitude grows in time. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hironobu Furuhashi , Yasusada Nambu

We study spinor field theories as an origin to induce space-time evolution. Self-interacting spinor fields with canonical and non-canonical kinetic terms are considered in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe. The deceleration parameter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Tomohiro Inagaki , Yury Rybalov , Xinhe Meng

In a certain class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, the black holes and the neutron stars can undergo spontaneous scalarization -- a strong gravity phase transition triggered by a tachyonic instability due to the nonminimal coupling between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Hao-Jui Kuan , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

One possibility to explain the current accelerated expansion of the universe may be related with the presence of cosmologically evolving scalar whose mass depends on the local matter density (chameleon cosmology). We point out that matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

In a class of generalized Proca theories, we study the existence of neutron star solutions with a nonvanishing temporal component of the vector field $A_\mu$ approaching 0 toward spatial infinity, as they may be the endpoints of tachyonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 Ryotaro Kase , Masato Minamitsuji , Shinji Tsujikawa

We consider the emergence of large-scale cosmological expansion in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. This is achieved by modelling sub-horizon regions of space-time as weak-field expansions around Minkowski space, and then subsequently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Chad Briddon , Timothy Clifton , Pierre Fleury