Living Reviews in Relativity ( IF 26.3 ) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 , DOI: 10.1007/s41114-023-00043-4 Steven L. Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela
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 late 1960s with the addition of a scalar field, and these were given the name boson stars. Since then, boson stars find use in a wide variety of models as sources of dark matter, as black hole mimickers, in simple models of binary systems, and as a tool in finding black holes in higher dimensions with only a single Killing vector. We discuss important varieties of boson stars, their dynamic properties, and some of their uses, concentrating on recent efforts.
中文翻译:
动力学玻色子星
稳定、局域能量束的想法作为粒子模型具有很强的吸引力。在 20 世纪 50 年代,约翰·惠勒 (John Wheeler) 设想这种束是电磁能的平滑结构,他称之为吉子 (geon) ,但没有找到。相反,在 20 世纪 60 年代末发现了添加标量场的类粒子解决方案,这些解决方案被命名为玻色子星。从那时起,玻色子星在各种模型中得到了广泛的应用,作为暗物质的来源,作为黑洞的模仿者,在双星系统的简单模型中,以及作为仅用单个杀伤矢量寻找更高维度黑洞的工具。我们讨论了玻色子星的重要种类、它们的动态特性以及它们的一些用途,重点关注最近的努力。