A soliton menagerie in AdS
A soliton menagerie in AdS
We explore the behaviour of charged scalar solitons in asymptotically global AdS4 spacetimes. This is motivated in part by attempting to identify under what circumstances such objects can become large relative to the AdS length scale. We demonstrate that such solitons generically do get large and in fact in the planar limit smoothly connect up with the zero temperature limit of planar scalar hair black holes. In particular, for given Lagrangian parameters we encounter multiple branches of solitons: some which are perturbatively connected to the AdS vacuum and surprisingly, some which are not. We explore the phase space of solutions by tuning the charge of the scalar field and changing scalar boundary conditions at AdS asymptopia, finding intriguing critical behaviour as a function of these parameters. We demonstrate these features not only for phenomenologically motivated gravitational Abelian-Higgs models, but also for models that can be consistently embedded into eleven dimensional supergravity.
hep-th, gr-qc
Gentle, Simon A.
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Rangamani, Mukund
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Withers, Benjamin
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22 May 2012
Gentle, Simon A.
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Rangamani, Mukund
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Withers, Benjamin
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Gentle, Simon A., Rangamani, Mukund and Withers, Benjamin
(2012)
A soliton menagerie in AdS.
Journal of High Energy Physics.
(doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2012)106).
Abstract
We explore the behaviour of charged scalar solitons in asymptotically global AdS4 spacetimes. This is motivated in part by attempting to identify under what circumstances such objects can become large relative to the AdS length scale. We demonstrate that such solitons generically do get large and in fact in the planar limit smoothly connect up with the zero temperature limit of planar scalar hair black holes. In particular, for given Lagrangian parameters we encounter multiple branches of solitons: some which are perturbatively connected to the AdS vacuum and surprisingly, some which are not. We explore the phase space of solutions by tuning the charge of the scalar field and changing scalar boundary conditions at AdS asymptopia, finding intriguing critical behaviour as a function of these parameters. We demonstrate these features not only for phenomenologically motivated gravitational Abelian-Higgs models, but also for models that can be consistently embedded into eleven dimensional supergravity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 April 2012
Published date: 22 May 2012
Additional Information:
62 pages, 21 figures. v2: added refs and comments and updated appendices
Keywords:
hep-th, gr-qc
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/455075
ISSN: 1029-8479
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Simon A. Gentle
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Mukund Rangamani
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