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Exact Static Solutions for Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity in $(3+1)$-Dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Einstein's field equations for a spherically symmetric metric coupled to a massless scalar field are reduced to a system effectively of second order in time, in terms of the variables μ=m/r\mu=m/r and y=(α/ra)y=(\alpha/ra), where aa, α\alpha, rr and mm are as in [W.M. Choptuik, ``Universality and Scaling in Gravitational Collapse of Massless Scalar Field", \textit{Physical Review Letters} {\bf{70}} (1993), 9-12]. Solutions for which μ\mu and yy are time independent may arise either from scalar fields with ϕt=0\phi_t=0 or with ϕs=0\phi_s=0 but ϕ\phi linear in tt, called respectively the positive and negative branches having the Schwarzschild solution characterized by ϕ=0\phi=0 and μs+μ=0\mu_s+\mu=0 in common. For the positive branch we obtain an exact solution which have been in fact obtained first in [I.Z. Fisher,``Scalar mesostatic field with regard for gravitational effects", \textit{Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.} {\bf{18}} (1948), 636-640, gr-qc/9911008] and rediscovered many times (see D. Grumiller, ``Quantum dilaton gravity in two dimensions with matter", PhD thesis, \textit{Technische Universita¨\ddot{a}t, Wien} (2001), gr-qc/0105078) and we prove that the trivial solution μ=0\mu=0 is a global attractor for the region μs+μ>0\mu_s+\mu>0 , μ<1/2\mu<1/2. For the negative branch discussed first in [M. Wyman, ``Static spherically symmetric scalar fields in general relativity", \textit{Physical Review D} {\bf{24}} (1981), 839-841] perturbatively, we prove that μ=0\mu=0 is a saddle point for the linearized system, but the non-vacuum solution μ=1/4\mu=1/4 is a stable focus and a global attractor for the region μs+μ>0\mu_s+\mu>0, μ<1/2\mu<1/2.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0508020,
  title  = {Exact Static Solutions for Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity in $(3+1)$-Dimensions},
  author = {Ayse H. Bilge and Durmus Daghan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0508020},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures. Replaced by a revised version

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