Boson Stars: Early History and Recent Prospects

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dc.creatorMielke, Eckehard W.
dc.creatorSchunck, Franz E.
dc.date1998-01-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:32:11Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:32:11Z
dc.descriptionBoson stars are descendants of the so-called geons of Wheeler, except that they are built from scalar particles instead of electromagnetic fields. If scalar fields exist in nature, such localized configurations kept together by their self-generated gravitational field can form within Einstein's general relativity. In the case of complex scalar fields, an absolutely stable branch of such non-topological solitons with conserved particle number exists. Our present surge stems from the speculative possibility that these compact objects could provide a considerable fraction of the non-baryonic part of dark matter. In any case, they may serve as a convenient "laboratory" for studying numerically rapidly rotating bodies in general relativity and the generation of gravitational waves.
dc.description20 pages, 1 Postscript figure, LaTeX, uses mprocl.sty
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801063
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801063
dc.identifierReport of parallel session chair in: Proc. 8th M. Grossmann Meeting, T. Piran (ed.), World Scientific, Singapore 1998, to be published
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36134
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleBoson Stars: Early History and Recent Prospects
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