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We study exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

We consider spherically symmetric static composite structures consisting of a boson star and a global monopole, minimally or non-minimally coupled to the general relativistic gravitational field. In the non-minimally coupled case, Marunovic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Gray D. Reid , Matthew W. Choptuik

We investigate boson stars within the framework of the self-interacting Einstein-Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (E-FLS) model, constituted by a complex scalar field with a quartic self-interaction and a real scalar field. Our analysis explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Pedro L. Brito de Sá , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

We consider rotating boson star solutions in a three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime and investigate the influence of the rotation on their properties. The mass and angular momentum of these configurations are computed by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-05 Dumitru Astefanesei , Eugen Radu

We analyze the physical properties of boson stars, which possess counterparts in flat space-time, Q-balls. Applying a stability analysis via catastrophe theory, we show that the families of rotating and non-rotating boson stars exhibit two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Stefanie Schneider

Scalar particles are a common prediction of many beyond the Standard Model theories. If they are light and cold enough, there is a possibility they may form Bose-Einstein condensates, which will then become gravitationally bound. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Eric Cotner

Solutions for rotating boson stars in (2+1) dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant are obtained numerically. The mass, particle number, and radius of the (2+1) dimensional rotating boson star are shown. Consequently we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

Spinning bosonic stars (SBSs) can form from the gravitational collapse of a dilute cloud of scalar/Proca particles with non-zero angular momentum. In a recent work we found that the scalar stars are transient due to a non-axisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Miguel Zilhão , Carlos Herdeiro , José A. Font , Eugen Radu

Compact objects, like neutron stars and white dwarfs, may accrete dark matter, and then be sensitive probes of its presence. These compact stars with a dark matter component can be modeled by a perfect fluid minimally coupled to a complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Carlos Palenzuela , Daniela Alic , L. Arturo Ureña-López

We find new spherically symmetric charged boson star solutions of a complex scalar field coupled non-minimally to gravity by a "John-type" term of Horndeski theory, that is a coupling between the kinetic scalar term and Einstein tensor. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Y. Verbin , Y. Brihaye

We study the dynamics of a self-gravitating scalar field solitonic object (boson star) in the Jordan-Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity. We show dynamical processes of this system such as (i) black hole formation of perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jayashree Balakrishna , Hisa-aki Shinkai

Because the Klein-Gordon and Proca equations involve $\hbar$, they describe quantum fields. Their solutions, however, may be treated as classical if their typical action obeys $S^{\rm typical}\gg \hbar$. This is possible due to their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We make a detailed study of boson star configurations in Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory, studying both equilibrium properties and stability, and considering boson stars existing at different cosmic epochs. We show that boson stars can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Diego F Torres , Franz E Schunck , Andrew R Liddle

Axisymmetric rotating radially excited boson stars are analyzed. For several fixed parameter sets, the full sets of solutions are obtained. In contrast to the nodeless boson stars, the radially excited sets of solutions do not exhibit a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Lucas G. Collodel , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We compute the lowest frequency radial oscillation modes of boson stars. It is assumed that the object is made of pseudo-Goldstone bosons subjected to a scalar potential that leads to a repulsive self-interaction force, and which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-15 Ilídio Lopes , Grigoris Panotopoulos

Solitonic boson stars (SBS) are compact shell-like objects with an inside having a nearly constant value of scalar field bounded by a thin shell where the scalar field rapidly changes. While the spherically symmetric SBS can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Nikolay Sukhov

The dynamical evolution of boson stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity is considered in the physical (Jordan) frame. We focus on the study of spontaneous and induced scalarization, for which we take as initial data configurations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-22 Milton Ruiz , Juan Carlos Degollado , Miguel Alcubierre , Dario Nunez , Marcelo Salgado

We investigate numerically a models of the static spherically symmetric boson-fermion stars in scalar-tensor theory of gravity with massive dilaton field. The proper mathematical model of such stars is interpreted as a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 T. L. Boyadjiev , M. D. Todorov , P. P. Fiziev , S. S. Yazadjiev

In the context of a special class of tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravity for which the target-space metric admits an isometry under which the theory is invariant, we present rotating vacuum solutions, namely with no matter fields. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Lucas G. Collodel , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Scalar-tensor~(ST) theories of gravity are natural phenomenological extensions to general relativity. Although these theories are severely constrained both by solar system experiments and by binary pulsar observations, a large set of ST…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Carlos Palenzuela , Steve Liebling