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astro-ph.CO2019
Analytic Description of Primordial Black Hole Formation from Scalar Field Fragmentation
Eric Cotner, Alexander Kusenko, Misao Sasaki +1
Primordial black hole (PBH) formation is a more generic phenomenon than was once thought. The dynamics of a scalar field in inflationary universe can produce PBHs under mild assump…
astro-ph.CO2017★ 105 cited
Primordial black holes from scalar field evolution in the early universe
Eric Cotner, Alexander Kusenko
Scalar condensates with large expectation values can form in the early universe, for example, in theories with supersymmetry. The condensate can undergo fragmentation into Q-balls…