Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons
- 1Departamento de Matemática da Universidade de Aveiro and Centre for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA)
- 2Universitat de València
Abstract
A bstract : We construct new families of everywhere regular, asymptotically flat solitons in the Einstein-Proca model, obtained as self-gravitating continuations of flat-spacetime (singular) Proca multipoles. First we consider static and axially symmetric solutions, organized by a multipole number ℓ . Two distinct classes arise: electric-type configurations, which include the spherical Proca stars as the ℓ = 0 case, and magnetic-type configurations, which have no spherical counterpart and start at ℓ = 1. Then we construct hybrid solutions as nonlinear superpositions of electric and magnetic multipoles. These have non-vanishing local angular momentum density but vanishing total angular momentum, and in some cases have no north-south ℤ ₂ -symmetry. By performing dynamical evolutions of Proca stars in the new magnetic and hybrid sectors, we show they are unstable, decaying to the (static) prolate Proca stars or the (stationary) spinning Proca stars, previously identified as dynamically robust, electric sector configurations. In some cases, they can also collapse into a black hole.
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BibTeX
@article{herdeiro2026multipolar,
title = {{Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons}},
author = {Carlos Herdeiro and Eugen Radu and Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1007/jhep10(2026)087},
url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)087},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons
AU - Carlos Herdeiro
AU - Eugen Radu
AU - Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho
AU - Nicolas Sanchis-Gual
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
DO - 10.1007/jhep10(2026)087
UR - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)087
AB - A bstract : We construct new families of everywhere regular, asymptotically flat solitons in the Einstein-Proca model, obtained as self-gravitating continuations of flat-spacetime (singular) Proca multipoles. First we consider static and axially symmetric solutions, organized by a multipole number ℓ . Two distinct classes arise: electric-type configurations, which include the spherical Proca stars as the ℓ = 0 case, and magnetic-type configurations, which have no spherical counterpart and start at ℓ = 1. Then we construct hybrid solutions as nonlinear superpositions of electric and magnetic multipoles. These have non-vanishing local angular momentum density but vanishing total angular momentum, and in some cases have no north-south ℤ ₂ -symmetry. By performing dynamical evolutions of Proca stars in the new magnetic and hybrid sectors, we show they are unstable, decaying to the (static) prolate Proca stars or the (stationary) spinning Proca stars, previously identified as dynamically robust, electric sector configurations. In some cases, they can also collapse into a black hole.
SN - 1029-8479
ER -