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A new solution to the coupled gravitational and scalar field equations for a condensed boson field is found in Newtonian approximation. The solution is axially symmetric, but not spherically symmetric. For N particles the mass of the object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Schupp , J. J. van der Bij

We study the linear stability of nonrelativistic $\ell$-boson stars, describing static, spherically symmetric configurations of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system with multiple wave functions having the same value of the angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Armando A. Roque , Emmanuel Chávez Nambo , Olivier Sarbach

Vector boson stars, also known as Proca stars, exhibit remarkable dynamical robustness, making them strong candidates for potential astrophysical exotic compact objects. In search of theoretically well-motivated Proca star models, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Claudio Lazarte , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Miguel Alcubierre

We re-examine the dynamical stability of the nakedly singular, static, spherical ly symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Klein Gordon system. We correct an earlier proof of the instability of these solutions, and demonstrate that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 M. A. Clayton , L. Demopoulos , J. Legare

We consider spherically symmetric static composite structures consisting of a boson star and a global monopole, minimally or non-minimally coupled to the general relativistic gravitational field. In the non-minimally coupled case, Marunovic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Gray D. Reid , Matthew W. Choptuik

We are interested in the global dynamics of a massive scalar field evolving under its own gravitational field and, in this paper, we study spherically symmetric solutions to Einstein's field equations coupled with a Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch , Filipe C. Mena , The-Cang Nguyen

We study boson shells and boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to the $U(1)$ gauge field $A_{\mu}$ and Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := \frac{1}{2} m^{2} \left(|\Phi|+ a \right)^2$. This could be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

In this article, an exact solution of Einstein's field equations for spherically symmetric anisotropic matter distributions in isotropic coordinates is obtained. For this, the solution has been obtained by using a generalized physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 B S Ratanpal , Bhavesh Suthar

Boson stars are often described as macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates. By accommodating large numbers of bosons in the same quantum state, they materialize macroscopically the intangible probability density cloud of a single particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

We prove existence of large families of solutions of Einstein-complex scalar field equations with a negative cosmological constant, with a stationary or static metric and a time-periodic complex scalar field.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Piotr T. Chruściel , Erwann Delay , Paul Klinger , Andreas Kriegl , Peter W. Michor , Armin Rainer

Axisymmetric rotating radially excited boson stars are analyzed. For several fixed parameter sets, the full sets of solutions are obtained. In contrast to the nodeless boson stars, the radially excited sets of solutions do not exhibit a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Lucas G. Collodel , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We study Rotating Boson Star initial data for Numerical Relativity as previously considered by Yoshida and Eriguchi, Lai (arXiv:gr-qc/0410040v2), and Grandclement, Som\'e and Gourgoulhon (arXiv:1405.4837v3). We use a 3 + 1 decomposition as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Santiago Ontanon , Miguel Alcubierre

We construct spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations, which give models of gaseous stars in the framework of the general theory of relativity. We assume a realistic barotropic equation of state. Equilibria of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Tetu Makino

We study the stability of rotating scalar boson stars, comparing those made from a simple massive complex scalar (referred to as mini boson stars), to those with several different types of nonlinear interactions. To that end, we numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

We consider a model with two real Maxwell fields (or equivalently, a complex Maxwell field) minimally coupled to Einsteins gravity with a negative cosmological constant in four spacetime dimensions. Assuming a specific harmonic dependence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Carlos Herdeiro , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

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 study the spontaneous scalarization of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat boson stars in the $(\alpha {\cal R} + \gamma {\cal G}) \phi^2$ scalar-tensor gravity model. These compact objects are made of a complex valued scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Spherically symmetric configurations of the non-interacting massive complex scalar field, representing non-rotating boson stars, are considered within the framework of the modified torsion based $f(T)$ gravity, with $f(T) = T + \alpha \,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-19 Saša Ilijić , Marko Sossich

We study spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations which model an idealized relativistic neutron star surrounded by vacuum. These are barotropic fluids with a free boundary, governed by an equation of state which sets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Volker Schlue

In previous work we analyzed the linear stability of non-relativistic $\ell$-boson stars with respect to radial modes and showed that ground state configurations are stable with respect to these modes, whereas excited states are unstable.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Emmanuel Chávez Nambo , Armando A. Roque , Olivier Sarbach