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It has been shown that scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. In this study, we analyze boson star configurations where the scalar fields contain a small amount of angular momentum and find two new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman , Freida Liz Rivera

We show that the phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization predicted in neutron stars within the framework of scalar-tensor tensor theories of gravity, also takes place in boson stars without including a self-interaction term for the boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-30 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan C. Degollado , Dario Nunez , Milton Ruiz , Marcelo Salgado

Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu Miyauchi , Takahiro Tanaka

Boson stars are hypothetical compact objects derived from solutions of a self-gravitating complex scalar field. In this study, we extend the traditional models by generalizing the kinetic term of the scalar field to that of a nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We report a no-go theorem excluding consistent cross-couplings for a collection of massless, spin-2 fields described, in the free limit, by the sum of Pauli-Fierz actions (one for each field). We show that, in spacetime dimensions >2, there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Boulanger , Thibault Damour , Leonardo Gualtieri , Marc Henneaux

Recent no-hair theorems have revealed the intriguing fact that horizonless stars with compact reflecting surfaces {\it cannot} support non-linear matter configurations made of scalar, vector, and tensor fields. In the present paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Shahar Hod

We enumerate all possible types of spacetime causal structures that can appear in static, spherically symmetric configurations of a self-gravitating, real, nonlinear, minimally coupled scalar field \phi in general relativity, with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kirill A. Bronnikov

We generalize the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for space-times endowed with a Weyssenhoff like torsion field in the Einstein-Cartan theory. The new set of structure equations clearly show how the presence of torsion affects the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-18 Paulo Luz , Sante Carloni

Three non-existence results are established for self-gravitating solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, wherein the scalar field is, generically, non-minimally coupled to the Maxwell field via a scalar function $f(\Phi)$. Firstly, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-26 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , João M. S. Oliveira

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

The properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations are considered in the framework of two models of nonlocally corrected gravity, suggested in S. Deser and R. Woodard., Phys. Rev. Lett. 663, 111301 (2007), and S. Capozziello et…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 K. A. Bronnikov , E. Elizalde

We study regular self-gravitating non-topological soliton solutions of the $U(1)$ gauged non-linear $O(3)$ sigma model with the usual kinetic term and a simple symmetry breaking potential in 3+1 dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Yakov Shnir , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk

The existence of localized, approximately stationary, lumps of the classical gravitational and electromagnetic field -- $geons$ -- was conjectured more than half a century ago. If one insists on exact stationarity, topologically trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Alexandre M. Pombo , Eugen Radu

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

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 show that strictly stationary spacetimes cannot have non-trivial configurations of form fields/complex scalar fields and then the spacetime should be exactly Minkowski or anti-deSitter spacetimes depending on the presence of negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Seiju Ohashi , Ryotaku Suzuki

$\ell$-boson stars are static, spherical, multi-field self-gravitating solitons. They are asymptotically flat, finite energy solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an odd number of massive, complex scalar fields. A previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Víctor Jaramillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , Darío Núñez

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

Binary pulsar observations and gravitational wave detections seriously constrained scalar-tensor theories with massless scalar field allowing only small deviations from general relativity. If we consider a nonzero mass of the scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Kalin V. Staykov , Dimitar Popchev , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In a recent paper, Hod proved that spherically symmetric Dirichlet reflecting compact stars cannot support static nonminimally coupled scalar fields. In the present paper, we study the validity of no hair theorems for compact stars with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-22 Yan Peng