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We study the superradiant instability of massive vector fields, i.e. Proca fields, around spinning black holes in the test field limit. This is motivated by the possibility that observations of astrophysical black holes can probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-11 William E. East

The construction of general derivative self-interactions for a massive Proca field relies on the well-known condition for constrained systems of having a degenerate Hessian. The nature of the existing constraints algebra will distinguish…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Ankip Kumar , Jann Zosso

We investigate dynamical mass generation in pseudo-Proca quantum electrodynamics (PPQED) using Schwinger--Dyson equations in rainbow-quenched and unquenched approximations. The (3+1)D gauge-field mass $m$, fine-structure constant $\alpha$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Helio G. Barroso , Van Sérgio Alves , Leandro O. Nascimento

Vector boson stars, also known as Proca stars, exhibit remarkable dynamical robustness, making them strong candidates for potential astrophysical exotic compact objects. In search of theoretically well-motivated Proca star models, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Claudio Lazarte , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Miguel Alcubierre

We study the propagation of charged scalar fields in the background of $2+1$-dimensional Coulomb-like AdS black holes, and we show that such propagation is unstable under Dirichlet boundary conditions. However, all the unstable modes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 P. A. González , Ángel Rincón , Joel Saavedra , Yerko Vásquez

Photon mass and Cartan contortion bounds recently obtained from tiny Lorentz violation observations in cosmology are used to find a limit of ${\lambda}\le 10^{-4}{\alpha}$ for the massive photon-torsion dimensionless coupling. Here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

Massive scalar test fields around Kerr black holes can form quasi-bound states with complex frequencies. Some of these states decay in time, but some others -- in the superradiant regime -- grow, causing a superradiant instability.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-10 Marco O. P. Sampaio , Carlos Herdeiro , Mengjie Wang

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

The superradiant growth of massive vector fields in rotating black hole spacetimes has garnered significant attention in recent literature. However, the majority of these studies overlook the influence of a cosmological constant, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Shaun David Brocus Fell , Lavinia Heisenberg

Maxwell's equations cannot describe a homogeneous and isotropic universe with a uniformly distributed net charge, because the electromagnetic field tensor in such a universe must be vanishing everywhere. For a closed universe with a nonzero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-01 Li-Xin Li

We study quasinormal spectrum of massive scalar field in the $D$-dimensional black hole background. We found the qualitatively different dependence on the field mass of the fundamental modes for $D\geq6$. The behaviour of higher modes is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Zhidenko

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational couplings, matter field perturbations on a static black hole spacetime may develop unphysical poles in their linearized equations. Physical solutions confined in the domain between the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aofei Sang

We derive a quantization formula of Bohr-Sommerfeld type for computing quasinormal frequencies for scalar perturbations in an AdS black hole in the limit of large scalar mass or spatial momentum. We then apply the formula to find poles in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-12 Guido Festuccia , Hong Liu

We consider the Lagrangian of a vector field with derivative self-interactions with a priori arbitrary coefficients. Starting with a flat space-time we show that for a special choice of the coefficients of the self-interactions the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-02 Lavinia Heisenberg

The world formulation of the full theory of classical Proca fields in generally relativistic spacetimes is concisely reviewed and the entire set of pertinent field equations is transcribed in a straightforward way into the framework of one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 S. I. Santos Junior , J. G. Cardoso

In the present paper, the connection between surface order-disorder phase transitions and the percolating properties of the adsorbed phase has been studied. For this purpose, four lattice-gas models in presence of repulsive interactions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Cecilia Gimenez , Felix Nieto , Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor

We discuss the dynamics of field configurations encoded in the certain class of electric (magnetic) dipole-charged states in the Proca theory of the real massive vector field. We construct such states so as to ensure that the long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Bogdan Damski

We present a comprehensive study of the massless scalar field perturbation in the Reissner-Nordstrom anti-de Sitter (RNAdS) spacetime and compute its quasinormal modes (QNM). For the lowest lying mode, we confirm and extend the dependence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-01 Bin Wang , Chi-Yong Lin , C. Molina

In scalar-vector-tensor (SVT) theories with parity invariance, we perform a gauge-ready formulation of cosmological perturbations on the flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background by taking into account a matter perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-12 Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

We consider a massive vector field with derivative interactions that propagates only the 3 desired polarizations (besides two tensor polarizations from gravity) with second-order equations of motion in curved space-time. The cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Antonio De Felice , Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Mukohyama , Shinji Tsujikawa , Ying-li Zhang