"Dynamical Boson Stars"
by
Steven L. Liebling and Carlos Palenzuela
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Abstract
1
Introduction
1.1
The nature of a boson star
1.2
Other reviews
2
Solving for Boson Stars
2.1
Conventions
2.2
The Lagrangian, evolution equations and conserved quantities
2.3
The 3+1 decomposition of the spacetime
2.4
Mini-boson stars
3
Varieties of Boson Stars
3.1
Self-interaction potentials
3.2
Newtonian boson stars
3.3
Charged boson stars
3.4
Oscillatons
3.5
Rotating boson stars
3.6
Fermionic-bosonic stars
3.7
Multi-state boson stars
3.8
Alternative theories of gravity
3.9
Gauged boson stars
4
Dynamics of Boson Stars
4.1
Gravitational stability
4.2
Dynamics of binary boson stars
5
Boson Stars in Astronomy
5.1
As astrophysical stellar objects
5.2
Compact alternatives to black holes
5.3
As origin of dark matter
6
Boson Stars in Mathematical Relativity
6.1
Black hole critical behavior
6.2
Hoop conjecture
6.3
Other dimensions
7
Final Remarks
8
Acknowledgments
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