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dc.contributor.authorHenderson, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-21 17:40:50 (GMT)
dc.date.available2014-05-21 17:40:50 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2014-05-21
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/8468
dc.description.abstractI construct anti-de Sitter boson stars in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a (D-1)/(2)-tuplet of complex massless scalar field both perturbativelyand numerically in D=5,7,9,11 dimensions. Due to the choice of scalar fields, these solutions possess just a single helical Killing symmetry. For each choice of the Gauss-Bonnet parameter &alpha;&#8800;&alpha;_cr, the central energy density at the center of the boson star, q_0 completely characterizes the one parameter family of solutions. These solutions obey the first law of thermodynamics, in the case of the numerics, to within 1 part in 10^6. I describe the dependence of the boson star mass, angular momentum and angular velocity on &alpha; and on the dimensionality. For &alpha;<&alpha;_cr and D>5, these quantities exhibit damped oscillations about finite central values and the central energy density tends to infinity. The Kretschmann invariant at the center of the boson star diverges in the limit of diverging central energy. This contrasts the D=5 case, where the Kretschmann invariant diverges at a finite value of the central energy density. Solutions where &alpha;<&alpha;_cr, correspond to negative mass boson stars, and the for all dimensions the boson star mass and angular momentum decrease exponentially as the central energy density tends toward infinity with the Kretschmann invariant diverging only when in the limit the central energy density diverges. I also briefly discuss the difficulties of numerically obtaining single Killing vector hairy black hole solutions and present the explicit boundary conditions for both Einstein gravity and Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectgeneral relativityen
dc.subjectnumerical relativtyen
dc.subjectSingle Killing Vectoren
dc.subjectGauss-Bonneten
dc.subjectanti-de Sitteren
dc.subjectboson staren
dc.subjectblack holeen
dc.subjectCheybshev expansionen
dc.titleSingle Killing Vector Gauss-Bonnet Boson Stars and Single Killing Vector Hairy Black Holes in D&gt;5 Odd Dimensionsen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.subject.programPhysicsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentPhysics and Astronomyen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Scienceen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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