Q-balls: Some Analytical Results

Abstract

Motivated by the renewed interest in the role of Q-balls in cosmological evolution, we present a discussion of the main properties of Q-balls, including some new results.

11 pages, 1 figure, submitted to The Europen Physics Journal C

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