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We studied spherically symmetric solutions in scalar-torsion gravity theories in which a scalar field is coupled to torsion with a derivative coupling. We obtained the general field equations from which we extracted a decoupled master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Georgios Kofinas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

This work deals with lump-like structures in models described by a single real scalar field in two-dimensional spacetime. We start with a model that supports lump-like configurations and use the deformation procedure to construct scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-06 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , Gonzalo J. Olmo

Standard Model with a classical conformal invariance holds the promise to give a better understanding of the hierarchy problem and could pave the way for beyond the standard model physics. So, we give here a mathematical treatment of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-30 Marco Frasca

For distant observers black holes are trapped spacetime domains bounded by apparent horizons. We review properties of the near-horizon geometry emphasizing the consequences of two common implicit assumptions of semiclassical physics. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-16 Robert B. Mann , Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno

We study the collapse of a massless scalar field coupled to gravity. A class of blackhole solutions are identified. We also report on a class of solutions where collapse starts from a regular spacelike surface but then the collapsing scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-22 Swastik Bhattacharya

In this study, we investigate rotating black hole solutions within a scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity framework that incorporates a squared Gauss-Bonnet term. By employing a quadratic exponential coupling function between the scalar field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Shoupan Liu , Yunqi Liu , Yan Peng , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We study black holes in a modified gravity scenario involving a scalar field quadratically coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The scalar is assumed to be in a spontaneously broken phase at spatial infinity due to a bare Higgs-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Eugeny Babichev , William T. Emond , Sabir Ramazanov

We consider f(R) gravity theories in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential. When the scalar field backreacts to the metric we find at large distances scalarized Schwarzschild-AdS and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Thanasis Karakasis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

An exact solution representing black holes in an expanding universe is found. The black holes are maximally charged and the universe is expanding with arbitrary equation of state. It is an exact solution of the Einstein-scalar-Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-14 Gary W. Gibbons , Kei-ichi Maeda

An exact four-dimensional black hole solution of gravity with a minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field is reported. The event horizon is a surface of negative constant curvature enclosing the curvature singularity at the origin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian Martinez , Ricardo Troncoso , Jorge Zanelli

We investigate the possibility to localize scalar field configurations as a model for black hole accretion. We analyze and resolve difficulties encountered when localizing scalar fields in General Relativity. We illustrate this ability with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Megevand , Ignacio Olabarrieta , Luis Lehner

The existence of static, spherically symmetric, self-gravitating scalar field solutions in the context of Born-Infeld gravity is explored. Upon a combination of analytical approximations and numerical methods, the equations for a free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 V. I. Afonso , Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia

The weak cosmic censorship hypothesis can be understood as a statement that there exists a global Cauchy evolution of a selfgravitating system outside an event horizon. The resulting Cauchy problem has a free null-like inner boundary. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-15 Edward Malec

We consider here the existence and structure of trapped surfaces, horizons and singularities in spherically symmetric static massless scalar field spacetimes. Earlier studies have shown that there exists no event horizon in such spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-21 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi

With a suitable decomposition of its energy-momentum tensor into pressureless matter and a vacuum type term, we investigate the spherical gravitational collapse of a minimally coupled, self-interacting scalar field, showing that it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-27 S. Carneiro , J. C. Fabris

We consider 2+1 gravity minimally coupled to a self-interacting scalar field. The case in which the fall-off of the fields at infinity is slower than that of a localized distribution of matter is analyzed. It is found that the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc Henneaux , Cristian Martinez , Ricardo Troncoso , Jorge Zanelli

We investigate a static solution with spherical symmetry of a recently proposed field theory of gravitation. In this so-called NDL theory, matter interacts with gravity in accordance with the Weak Equivalence Principle, while gravitons have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Novello , S. E. Perez Bergliaffa , K. E. Hibberd

Scalar fields with a global U(1) symmetry often appear in cosmology and astrophysics. We study the spherically-symmetric, stationary accretion of such a classical field onto a Schwarzschild black hole in the test-field approximation. Thus,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Dražen Glavan , Alexander Vikman , Tom Zlosnik

Static spherically symmetric black holes and particle like solutions with self interacting minimally coupled scalar field {\phi} are analyzed. They are asymptotically flat or anti-de Sitter (AdS). We express them in terms of a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-12 J. Tafel