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We review particle-like configurations of complex scalar field, localized by gravity, so-called boson stars. In the simplest case, these solutions posses spherical symmetry, they may arise in the massive Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-14 Yakov Shnir

In this paper, we re-examine charged Q-clouds around spherically symmetric, static black holes. In particular, we demonstrate that for fixed coupling constants two different branches of charged scalar clouds exist around Schwarzschild black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Complex scalar fields charged under a global U(1) symmetry can admit non-topological soliton configurations called Q-balls which are stable against decay into individual particles or smaller Q-balls. These Q-balls are interesting objects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We study non-spinning Q-balls and boson stars in 4-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. We use an exponential scalar field potential that appears in gauge-mediated supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking in the minimal supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Betti Hartmann , Juergen Riedel

We investigate static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity non-minimally coupled to a massless real scalar field, both in vacuum and in the presence of fermionic matter. Focusing on a specific quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Roberto D. Alba Q. , Javier Chagoya , Armando A. Roque

We derive a bound on the energy of the general (p,q)-supersymmetric two-dimensional massive sigma model with torsion, in terms of the topological and Noether charges that appear as central charges in its supersymmetry algebra.The bound is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 G. Papadopoulos , P. K. Townsend

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

We investigate a coupled system consisting of a complex scalar field, a U(1) gauge field, a complex Higgs scalar field, and Einstein gravity. We present nontopological soliton star solutions in which the interior geometry is described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 Tatsuya Ogawa , Hideki Ishihara

We study spherically symmetric static spacetimes generally filled with an anisotropic fluid in the nonrelativistic general covariant theory of gravity. In particular, we find that the vacuum solutions are not unique, and can be expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Jared Greenwald , V. H. Satheeshkumar , Anzhong Wang

We investigate the consistency conditions for matter fields coupled to the four-dimensional (${\cal N} = 1$ supersymmetric) $\mathbb{CP}(1)$ nonlinear sigma model (the coset space $SU(2)_G/U(1)_H$). We find that consistency requires that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-17 Simeon Hellerman , John Kehayias , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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

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

We construct nontopological solitonic solutions in (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime carrying a conserved global U(1) charge and nonvanishing angular momentum in a supersymmetric extension of the standard model with low-energy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-14 L. Campanelli , M. Ruggieri

We present spinning Q-balls and boson stars in four dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. These are smooth, horizonless solutions for gravity coupled to a massive complex scalar field with a harmonic dependence on time and the azimuthal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Eugen Radu , Bintoro Subagyo

We have studied spacetime structures of static solutions in the $n$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell-$\Lambda$ system. Especially we focus on effects of the Maxwell charge. We assume that the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient $\alpha$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Takashi Torii , Hideki Maeda

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 consider again stationary solutions to the spherically symmetric Einstein--Maxwell--Klein--Gordon system, commonly known as ``charged boson stars'', originally studied by Jetzer and Van Der Bij. We construct families of charged boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 José Damián López , Miguel Alcubierre

We study Q-balls associated with local U(1) symmetries. Such Q-balls are expected to become unstable for large values of their charge because of the repulsion mediated by the gauge force. We consider the possibility that the repulsion is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. N. Anagnostopoulos , M. Axenides , E. G. Floratos , N. Tetradis

We investigate the presence of non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in (1, 1) spacetime dimensions. The model engenders the global U(1) symmetry and is of the k-field type, since it contains a new term, of the fourth-order power in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

In this paper a new class of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations for compact stars with charged distributions is obtained on the basis of pseudo-spheroidal spacetime characterized by the metric potential…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 V. O. Thomas , D. M. Pandya