Assessing the stability of ultracompact spinning boson stars with nonlinear evolutions

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Main Authors: Evstafyeva, Tamara, Siemonsen, Nils, East, William E.
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Published: 2025
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author Evstafyeva, Tamara
Siemonsen, Nils
East, William E.
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Siemonsen, Nils
East, William E.
contents We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no evidence of an instability on timescales of $t μ\sim 10^4$ (in units of the scalar mass), when allowing the star to be perturbed either solely by discretization error or by imposing various types of perturbations to our initial data. We find that the initially imposed perturbations exhibit slow decay, even for magnitudes just below the order where immediate collapse is induced.
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spellingShingle Assessing the stability of ultracompact spinning boson stars with nonlinear evolutions
Evstafyeva, Tamara
Siemonsen, Nils
East, William E.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no evidence of an instability on timescales of $t μ\sim 10^4$ (in units of the scalar mass), when allowing the star to be perturbed either solely by discretization error or by imposing various types of perturbations to our initial data. We find that the initially imposed perturbations exhibit slow decay, even for magnitudes just below the order where immediate collapse is induced.
title Assessing the stability of ultracompact spinning boson stars with nonlinear evolutions
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11527