Dynamical boson stars

Abstract The idea of stable, localized bundles of energy has strong appeal as a model for particles. In the 1950s, John Wheeler envisioned such bundles as smooth configurations of electromagnetic energy that he called geons, but none were found. Instead, particle-like solutions were found in the lat...

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Main Authors: Steven L. Liebling, Carlos Palenzuela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41114-017-0007-y