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Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to free, massive, classical fundamental fields admits particle-like solutions. These are asymptotically flat, everywhere non-singular configurations that realise Wheeler's concept of a geon: a localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Herdeiro , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

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

The Proca wave equation describes a classical massive spin 1 particle. We analyze the gravitational interaction of this vector field. In particular, the spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Proca coupled system are obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Yuri N. Obukhov , Eugen J. Vlachynsky

In a previous work we constructed different families of stationary electrically charged Proca stars characterized by a charge parameter $q$, by solving the Einstein--Maxwell--Proca system in spherical symmetry, and imposing a harmonic time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Yahir Mio , Miguel Alcubierre

We consider configurations consisting of a gravitating nonlinear spinor field $\psi$, with a nonlinearity of the type $\lambda\left(\bar\psi\psi\right)^2$, minimally coupled to Maxwell and Proca fields through the coupling constants $Q_M$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-31 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

The Einstein-Proca system is studied in the case of a complex vector-field self-interacting through an appropriate potential with a global U(1) symmetry. The corresponding equations for a static, cylindrically symmetric metric and matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Y. Brihaye , Y. Verbin

We study the dynamical stability of Proca-Higgs stars, in spherical symmetry. These are solutions of the Einstein-Proca-Higgs model, which features a Higgs-like field coupled to a Proca field, both of which minimally coupled to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , Miguel Zilhão

Scalar boson stars and Dirac stars are solitonic solutions of the Einstein{Klein-Gordon and Einstein- Dirac classical equations, respectively. Despite the different bosonic vs: fermionic nature of the matter field, these solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Carlos Herdeiro , Ilya Perapechka , Eugen Radu , Yakov Shnir

We present a comparative study of spherically symmetric, localized, particle-like solutions for spin $s=0,1/2$ and $1$ gravitating fields in a $D$-dimensional, asymptotically flat spacetime. These fields are massive, possessing a harmonic…

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

We construct and explore the physical properties of \textit{scalaroca stars}: spherically symmetric solitonic solutions made of a complex scalar field $\Phi$ and a complex Proca field $A^\mu$. We restrict our attention to configurations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Alexandre M. Pombo , João M. S. Oliveira , Nuno M. Santos

Within SU(2) Higgs-Proca theory, we obtain a family of nontopological static solutions describing localized, finite-energy configurations (Proca balls). The gauge symmetry of the theory is explicitly broken by introducing a vector Proca…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-17 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

Extending the Proca Lagrangian of a massive complex-valued vector field by self-interaction potential, we construct a large class of spherically symmetric solutions in flat Minkowski background as well as in the self-gravitating case. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-09 Y. Brihaye , Th. Delplace , Y. Verbin

We study configurations consisting of a gravitating spinor field $\psi$ with a nonlinearity of the type $\lambda\left(\bar\psi\psi\right)^2$. To ensure spherical symmetry of the configurations, we use two spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fields forming a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-19 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

We perform fully non-linear numerical simulations within the spherically symmetric Einstein-(complex)Proca system. Starting with Proca field distributions that obey the Hamiltonian, momentum and Gaussian constraints, we show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José A. Font

We investigate the static and spherically symmetric solutions in a class of the generalized Proca theory with the nonminimal coupling to the Einstein tensor. First, we show that the solutions in the scalar-tensor theory with the nonminimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 Masato Minamitsuji

Effective 4-dimensional theories are investigated which were obtained under dimensional reduction of multidimensional cosmological models with a minimal coupled scalar field as matter source. Conditions for the internal space stabilization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Guenther , A. Zhuk

Vector boson stars, or $\textit{Proca stars}$, have been recently obtained as fully non-linear numerical solutions of the Einstein-(complex)-Proca system. These are self-gravitating, everywhere non-singular, horizonless Bose-Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We consider strongly gravitating configurations consisting of coupled real Higgs scalar field and vector (Proca) field of mass $\mu_P$. For such a system, we find static regular axially symmetric solutions describing asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-11 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

We study spherically symmetric strongly gravitating configurations supported by nonlinear spinor fields and non-Abelian SU(2) Yang-Mills/Proca magnetic fields. Regular asymptotically flat solutions describing objects with positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-13 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

The generalized SU(2) Proca theory is a vector-tensor modified gravity theory where the action is invariant under both diffeomorphisms and global internal transformations of the SU(2) group. This work constitutes the first approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-13 Jhan N. Martinez , Jose F. Rodriguez , Yeinzon Rodriguez , Gabriel Gomez