The Nuclear Repulsive-Core Effect as a Possible Consequence of Matter in Interaction with a Classical Relativistic Scalar Field: A New Approach to the Question

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 636-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Leiter ◽  
J. Huschilt ◽  
G. Szamosi

The N-body problem is analyzed within the framework of a new formalism for relativistic point masses interacting via a scalar field, in which the problems of infinite self-energies are absent. A Lagrangian formalism is exhibited which yields the particle equations of motion in the form of a parameterized class of equations. The parameter determines the choice of boundary conditions which is chosen on the scalar-field equations. The existence or nonexistence of the relativistic nuclear hard-core effect, associated with the scalar-field interactions, is shown to depend critically on the particular set of boundary conditions which are imposed on the scalar-field equations. In particular, time-symmetric boundary conditions yield no hard-core repulsion, while retarded boundary conditions are shown to yield a hard-core repulsion at very short range.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens O. Andersen ◽  
Magdalena Eriksson ◽  
Anders Tranberg

Abstract Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified with the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum effective potential. The shape of this potential is determined by the underlying tree-level potential, dressed by quantum corrections from the scalar field itself and the metric perturbations. Following [1], we compute the effective scalar field equations and the corrected Friedmann equations to quadratic order in both scalar field, scalar metric and tensor perturbations. We identify the quantum corrections from different sources at leading order in slow-roll, and estimate their magnitude in benchmark models of inflation. We comment on the implications of non-minimal coupling to gravity in this context.


2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1049-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. CHAN ◽  
M. F. A. DA SILVA ◽  
J. F. VILLAS DA ROCHA ◽  
ANZHONG WANG

All the (2+1)-dimensional circularly symmetric solutions with kinematic self-similarity of the second kind to the Einstein-massless-scalar field equations are found and their local and global properties are studied. It is found that some of them represent gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field, in which black holes are always formed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios N. Lyberopoulos

AbstractWe are concerned with the existence of positive weak solutions, as well as the existence of bound states (i.e. solutions inW1,p(ℝN)), for quasilinear scalar field equations of the form$$ - \Delta _pu + V(x) \vert u \vert ^{p - 2}u = K(x) \vert u \vert ^{q - 2}u + \vert u \vert ^{p^ * - 2}u,\qquad x \in {\open R}^N,$$where Δpu: =div(|∇u|p−2∇u), 1 <p<N,p*: =Np/(N−p) is the critical Sobolev exponent,q∈ (p, p*), whileV(·) andK(·) are non-negative continuous potentials that may decay to zero as |x| → ∞ but are free from any integrability or symmetry assumptions.


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