Propagating q-field and q-ball solution

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Date
2017
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Language
en
Pages
1-13
Series
MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A, Volume 32, issue 18
Abstract
One possible solution of the cosmological constant problem involves a so-called q-field, which self-adjusts so as to give a vanishing gravitating vacuum energy density (cosmological constant) in equilibrium. We show that this q-field can manifest itself in other ways. Specifically, we establish a propagating mode (q-wave) in the nontrivial vacuum and find a particular soliton-type solution in flat spacetime, which we call a q-ball by analogy with the well-known Q-ball solution. Both q-waves and q-balls are expected to play a role for the equilibration of the q-field in the very early universe.
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| openaire: EC/H2020/694248/EU//TOPVAC
Keywords
cosmological constant, dark energy, Relativistic wave equations, solitons
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Klinkhamer , F R & Volovik , G E 2017 , ' Propagating q-field and q-ball solution ' , MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A , vol. 32 , no. 18 , 1750103 , pp. 1-13 . https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732317501036