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Regarding a $d-$dimensional spherically symmetric line element in the context of Einstein-$\Lambda$ gravity, the hydrostatic equilibrium equation of stars is obtained. Then, by using the lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-30 G. H. Bordbar , S. H. Hendi , B. Eslam Panah

We investigate the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos made up of a massless bosonic field. The coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are solved numerically, showing that such a boson halo is stable and can be formed under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayashree Balakrishna , Franz E. Schunck

We study gravitational perturbations of electrically charged black holes in (3+1)-dimensional Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity with a positive cosmological constant. For the axial perturbations, we obtain a set of decoupled Schrodinger-type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-24 Chong Oh Lee , Jin Young Kim , Mu-In Park

We present new, fully nonlinear numerical solutions to the static, spherically symmetric Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a collection of an arbitrary odd number $N$ of complex scalar fields with an internal $U(N)$ symmetry and no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Dario Nunez , Olivier Sarbach

Compact bosonic field configurations, or boson stars, are promising dark matter candidates which have been invoked as an alternative description for the supermassive compact objects in active galactic nuclei. Boson stars can be comparable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-26 Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Luís C. B. Crispino

In this work, we investigate a static and spherically symmetric Bardeen-Kiselev black hole with cosmological constant which is a solution of the Einstein-non-linear Maxwell field equations along with a quintessential field. We compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 S. R. Wu , B. Q. Wang , Z. W. Long

In this paper, we re-investigate the stationary, soliton-like solutions in the model of the Einstein gravity coupled to a free and complex scalar field, which have been known as mini-boson stars. With numerical method, we find that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Shi-Xian Sun , Yong-Qiang Wang , Li Zhao

In this paper, we systematically study spherically symmetric static spacetimes in the framework of Einstein-aether theory, and pay particular attention to the existence of black holes (BHs). In the present studies we first clarify several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-18 Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Kai Lin , Shaojun Zhang , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

In this work, we construct spherically symmetric solutions of Bardeen--boson stars within the framework of the Einstein--Klein--Gordon theory coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics by employing numerical methods. Considering a thin accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Chen-Yu Yang , Huan Ye , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

Spherically symmetric bosonic stars are one of the few examples of gravitating solitons that are known to form dynamically, via a classical process of (incomplete) gravitational collapse. As stationary solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Pedro V. P. Cunha , José A. Font , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão

This paper investigates chains of rotating boson stars (BSs) within Einstein gravity coupled to a complex scalar field. The model incorporates quartic or sextic self-interactions in the scalar Lagrangian, which support the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Ran Sun , Jing-Kang Bin , Li Zhao

Fully non-linear numerical evolutions of the Einstein-(multi)--Klein-Gordon equations are performed to study head-on collisions of $\ell$-boson stars. Despite being spherically symmetric, $\ell$-boson stars have a (hidden) frame of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Víctor Jaramillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez

We present solutions to the Einstein-Klein Gordon system representing boson stars in the slow rotation approximation. By considering slow rotation we are able to reduce the number of equations yielding a system of ordinary differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Juan Carlos Degollado , Luis E. Martínez , Marcelo Salgado

We discuss spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a real scalar field with a mass and a quartic self-interaction term. As for the massless case the solutions have a naked singularity at the origin.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jetzer , David Scialom

We construct spherically symmetric boson star solutions in $D \in \{4,5,6\}$ spacetime dimensions, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction term and a solitonic potential. We then perform a perturbative analysis,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Gareth Arturo Marks , Abdullah Al Zaif

In this work, we have constructed anisotropic bosonic dark-matter star (DMS) solutions in the context of a regularized four-dimensional Einstein$-$Gauss$-$Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity theory. Using dimensional regularization, we solve modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Mohamamd Mazhari

We study equilibrium configurations of boson stars in the framework of general scalar-tensor theories of gravitation. We analyse several possible couplings, with acceptable weak field limit and, when known, nucleosynthesis bounds, in order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Diego F. Torres

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

Five and six dimensional static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically Euclidean black holes, are unstable under gravitational perturbations if their mass is lower than a critical value set by the string tension. The instability is due to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Beroiz , Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser

In this paper, we treat 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity as general relativity with an effective stress-energy tensor. We will study the modified Oppenheimer-Snyder-Datt model of the gravitational collapse of a star in a…

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