Mini boson stars in higher dimensions are radially unstable

Abstract

Boson stars are self-gravitating solutions made entirely of fundamental massive bosonic fields. Here we investigate mini boson stars in $D$ non-compact spacetime dimensions and we show that they are dynamically unstable for $D>4$.

7 pages, 4 figures; accepted in GRG

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