Spherical scalar field halo in galaxies
- 25 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 62 (6) , 061301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.62.061301
Abstract
We study a spherically symmetric fluctuation of scalar dark matter in the cosmos and show that it could be the dark matter in galaxies, provided that the scalar field has an exponential potential whose overall sign is negative and whose exponent is constrained observationally by the rotation velocities of galaxies. The local space-time of the fluctuation contains a three-dimensional spacelike hypersurface with a surplus of angle.Keywords
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