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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

We study equilibrium configurations of boson stars in the framework of a class scalar-tensor theories of gravity with massive gravitational scalar (dilaton). In particular we investigate the influence of the mass of the dilaton on the boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Fiziev , S. Yazadjiev , T. Boyadjiev , M. Todorov

We study axially symmetric multi-soliton solutions of a complex scalar field theory with a sextic potential, minimally coupled to Einstein's gravity. These solutions carry no angular momentum and can be classified by the number of nodes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Y. Shnir

We study the nonlinear radial stability of boson stars with a solitonic potential across the entire parameter space, focusing especially on families of solutions that support ultracompact models on the perturbatively stable branch. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Gareth Arturo Marks

We numerically solve the mass-less test scalar field equation on the space-time background of boson stars and black holes. In order to do so, we use a numerical domain that contains future null infinity. We achieve this construction using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-08-12 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. S. Guzmán

We study spontaneous scalarization in Scalar-Tensor boson stars. We find that scalarization does not occur in stars whose bosons have no self-interaction. We introduce a quartic self-interaction term into the boson Lagrangian and show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Whinnett

We present compact Q-balls in an (Anti-)de Sitter background in D dimensions, obtained with a V-shaped potential of the scalar field. Beyond critical values of the cosmological constant compact Q-shells arise. By including the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

We consider boson star solutions in a $D$-dimensional, asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime and investigate the influence of the cosmological term on their properties. We find that for $D>4$ the boson star properties are close to those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dumitru Astefanesei , Eugen Radu

The idea of stable, localized bundles of energy has strong appeal as a model for particles. In the 1950s John Wheeler envisioned such bundles as smooth configurations of electromagnetic energy that he called {\em geons}, but none were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Steven L. Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela

We consider boson stars and black holes in scalar electrodynamics with a V-shaped scalar potential. The boson stars come in two types, having either ball-like or shell-like charge density. We analyze the properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-22 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Claus Laemmerzahl , Meike List

We investigate the boson star with the self-interacting scalar field as a model of galactic halos. The model has slightly increasing rotation curves and allows wider ranges of the mass($m$) and coupling($\lambda$) of the halo dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jae-weon Lee , In-guy Koh

In this paper we study gravitationally bound compact objects sourced by a string theory inspired Born-Infeld scalar field. Unlike many of their canonical scalar field counterparts, these ``boson stars'' do not have to extend out to infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Andrew DeBenedictis , Sasa Ilijic

We present a class of general relativistic soliton-like solutions composed of multiple minimally coupled, massive, real scalar fields which interact only through the gravitational field. We describe a two-parameter family of solutions we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

We study solutions close to solitary waves of the pseudo-relativistic Hartree equation describing boson stars under the influence of an external gravitational field. In particular, we analyze the long-time effective dynamics of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juerg Froehlich , B. Lars G. Jonsson , Enno Lenzmann

We study solutions for boson stars in the multi-scalar field theory with global symmetry $[U(1)]^N$. The properties of the boson stars are investigated by the Newtonian approximation with the large coupling limit. Our purpose is to study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

In this work, we study the time evolution of radial kinks in the background of boson stars. In particular, we consider two types of boson stars: the massive boson star and the solitonic boson star. For each boson star, we study the dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Tian-Chi Ma , Xiang-Yu Wang , Hai-Qing Zhang

We perform numerical evolutions of the fully non-linear Einstein-(complex, massive)Klein-Gordon and Einstein-(complex)Proca systems, to assess the formation and stability of spinning bosonic stars. In the scalar/vector case these are known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 N. Sanchis-Gual , F. Di Giovanni , M. Zilhão , C. Herdeiro , P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font , E. Radu

Different types of gravitating compact objects occuring in d=5 space-time are considered: boson stars, hairy black holes and perfect fluid solutions. All these solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to matter have well established…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. Brihaye , T. Delsate

Scalar fields with non-trivial kinetic term derived from a nonlinear sigma model are motivated by UV completions of gravity such as string theory. We discuss the $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ and $\mathrm{O}(3)$ sigma models with interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Ludovico Machet , Llibert Aresté Saló