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In this paper we consider an axial torsion to build metric-compatible connections in conformal gravity, with gauge potentials; the geometric background is filled with Dirac spinors: scalar fields with suitable potentials are added…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-12 Luca Fabbri

In the presence of a strong magnetic field a stellar equilibrium configuration, aided by the Lorentz force, can support a larger mass than a non-magnetic one. This has been considered a possible explanation of the super-Chandrasekhar mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 Prasanta Bera , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We present several arguments which favor the scenario of two coexisting families of compact stars: hadronic stars and quark stars. Besides the well known hyperon puzzle of the physics of compact stars, a similar puzzle exists also when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Alessandro Drago , Andrea Lavagno , Giuseppe Pagliara , Daniele Pigato

We consider for j=1/2, 3/2,... a spherically symmetric, static system of (2j+1) Dirac particles, each having total angular momentum j. The Dirac particles interact via a classical gravitational and electromagnetic field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Felix Finster , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

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

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

In this paper, we study gauged solutions associated to a massive vector field representing a spin-one condensate, namely the Proca field. We focus on regular spherically-symmetric solutions which we construct either using a self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Federico García , Ignacio Salazar Landea

Multi-frequency Proca stars are excited equilibrium configurations of a selfgravitating massive vector field that coexist with conventional stationary states in the solution space of the $s=1$ Schr\"odinger-Poisson system. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Galo Diaz-Andrade , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Jose Luis Medina-Garcia , Armando A. Roque

Using the language of the Geometric Algebra, we recast the massless Dirac bispinor as a set of Lorentz scalar, bivector, and pseudoscalar fields that obey a generalized form of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The spinor's unusual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Anastasios Y. Papaioannou

A weakly coupled scalar field $\Phi$ with a simple exponential potential $V=M_P^4\exp(-\lambda\Phi/M_P)$ where $M_P$ is the reduced Planck mass, and $\lambda > 2$, has an attractor solution in a radiation or matter dominated universe in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Pedro G. Ferreira , Michael Joyce

We investigate charge accretion in vicinity of a slowly rotating compact star with a non-stationary electromagnetic field. Exact solutions to the general relativistic Maxwell equations are obtained for a star formed of a highly degenerate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Babur M. Mirza

In this paper we present a detailed calculation of an Ansatz that allows to obtain spherically symmetric Einstein-Dirac configurations in $d$-dimensions. We show that this is possible by combining $2^{\lfloor \frac{d-2}{2} \rfloor}$ Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Christian Knoll

We consider the most general axial torsion completion of gravity with electrodynamics for $\frac{1}{2}$-spin spinors in an $8$-dimensional representation of the Dirac matter field: this theory will allow to define antimatter as matter with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-13 Luca Fabbri

In this paper we construct and study a formulation of a chargeless complex vector matter field in a supersymmetric framework. To this aim we combine two no-chiral scalar superfields in order to take the vector component field to build the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-15 L. P. Colatto , A. L. A. Penna

Local decompositions of a Dirac spinor into `charged' and `real' pieces psi(x) = M(x) chi(x) are considered. chi(x) is a Majorana spinor, and M(x) a suitable Dirac-algebra valued field. Specific examples of the decomposition in 2+1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Sumner , P. D. Jarvis

We study a system consisting of a non-Abelian SU(2) Proca field interacting with nonlinear scalar (Higgs) and spinor fields. For such a system, it is shown that particle-like solutions with finite energy do exist. It is demonstrated that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Arislan Makhmudov

We confront massive Proca-Nuevo gravity with cosmological observations. The former is a non-linear theory involving a massive spin-1 field, that can be extended incorporating operators of the Generalized Proca class, and when coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Emanuel N. Saridakis

New simple field equations are proposed (Eqs. (5)), unifying Maxwell's equations of the Standard Model electrodynamics (after the electroweak symmetry is spontaneously broken) with the dynamics of cold dark matter. The cold dark matter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-29 Wojciech Krolikowski

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

The Dirac equation for an electron in two spatial dimensions in the Coulomb and homogeneous magnetic fields is discussed. For weak magnetic fields, the approximate energy values are obtained by semiclassical method. In the case with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov