Droplets in General Relativity: Exact Self-Consistent Solutions to the Interacting Scalar and Electromagnetic Field Equations

Abstract

It is shown, for the self-consistent system of scalar, electro-magnetic and gravitational fields in general relativity, that the equations of motion admit a special kind of solutions with spherical or cylindrical symmetry. For these solutions, the physical fields vanish and the space-time is flat outside of the critical sphere or cylinder. Therefore, the mass and the electric charge of these configurations are zero. The principal difference between droplet-like solutions with spherical symmetry and those with cylindrical one has been established. In the first case there exists a possibility of continuous transformation of droplet-like configuration into the solitonian one, when for the second case there is no such a possibility.