Published October 15, 1989 | Version v1
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Einstein gravity coupled to a massless scalar field in arbitrary spacetime dimensions

Creators

  • 1. Research Center of Crete, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Iraklion, Crete, Greece (Greece)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Iraklion, Crete, Greece Department of Physics, Queens University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6

Description

We obtain the exact static spherically symmetric solution of the coupled Einstein--massless-scalar-field equations for arbitrary spacetime dimensions. The general solution involves two parameters: it is asymptotically flat and the scalar field tends to zero at spacelike infinity. It exhibits a naked singularity unless the scalar field vanishes when it naturally reduces to the Schwarzschild solution in D spacetime dimensions

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
8
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2564-2567
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
21021034
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; COSMOLOGY; COUPLING; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; MASSLESS PARTICLES; RICCI TENSOR; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SYMMETRY; TENSORS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES