Spontaneous growth of vector fields in gravity
arXiv:1706.01056 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.064009
Abstract
We show that the spontaneous scalarization scenario in scalar-tensor theories is a specific case of a more general phenomenon. The key fact is that the instability causing the spontaneous growth in scalars is due to the nonminimal coupling in the theory, and not related to the nature of the scalar. Another field with the same form of coupling undergoes spontaneous growth as well. We explicitly demonstrate this idea for vectors, naming it "spontaneous vectorization", and study spherically symmetric neutron stars in such a theory. We also comment on other tensor fields the idea can be applied, naming the general mechanism "spontaneous tensorization".
5 pages, 2 figures
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