Exact Static Solutions for Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity in $(3+1)$-Dimensions

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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Einstein's field equations for a spherically symmetric metric coupled to a massless scalar field are reduced to a system effectively of second order in time, in terms of the variables $\mu=m/r$ and $y=(\alpha/ra)$, where $a$, $\alpha$, $r$ and $m$ are as in [W.M. Choptuik, ``Universality and Scaling in Gravitational Collapse of Massless Scalar Field", \textit{Physical Review Letters} {\bf{70}} (1993), 9-12]. Solutions for which $\mu $ and $y$ are time independent may arise either from scalar fields with $\phi_t=0$ or with $\phi_s=0$ but $\phi$ linear in $t$, called respectively the positive and negative branches having the Schwarzschild solution characterized by $\phi=0 $ and $\mu_s+\mu=0$ in common. For the positive branch we obtain an exact solution which have been in fact obtained first in [I.Z. Fisher,``Scalar mesostatic field with regard for gravitational effects", \textit{Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.} {\bf{18}} (1948), 636-640, gr-qc/9911008] and rediscovered many times (see D. Grumiller, ``Quantum dilaton gravity in two dimensions with matter", PhD thesis, \textit{Technische Universit$\ddot{a}$t, Wien} (2001), gr-qc/0105078) and we prove that the trivial solution $\mu=0$ is a global attractor for the region $\mu_s+\mu>0 $, $\mu<1/2$. For the negative branch discussed first in [M. Wyman, ``Static spherically symmetric scalar fields in general relativity", \textit{Physical Review D} {\bf{24}} (1981), 839-841] perturbatively, we prove that $\mu=0$ is a saddle point for the linearized system, but the non-vacuum solution $\mu=1/4$ is a stable focus and a global attractor for the region $\mu_s+\mu>0$, $\mu<1/2$.

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