We consider static axially symmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes in the isolated horizon formalism. The mass of these hairy black holes is related to the mass of the corresponding particle-like solutions by the horizon mass. The hairy black holes violate the ``quasi-local uniqueness conjecture, based on the horizon charges.
We study the interior structure of the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton black holes as a function of the dilaton coupling constant $gammain [0,1]$. For $gamma eq 0$ the solutions have no internal Cauchy horizons and the field amplitudes follow a power law behavior near the singularity. As $gamma$ decreases, the solutions develop more and more oscillation cycles in the interior region, whose number becomes infinite in the limit $gammato 0$.
In this paper we study Joule-Thomson $(JT)$ expansion of non-linearly charged $AdS$ black holes in Einstein-power-Yang-Mills (EPYM) gravity in $D$ dimensions. Within the framework of extended phase space thermodynamics we identify the cosmological constant as thermodynamic pressure and the black hole mass with the enthalpy and derive the Joule-Thomson coefficient $mu$. Furthermore we have presented equations for inversion curves and the exact expression for the minimum inversion temperature. We also have calculated the ratio between the minimum of inversion $T_i^{min}$ and the critical temperature $T_c$ and obtained the analytic expression for the ratio $frac{T_i^{min}}{T_c}$ that depends explicitly on the non-linearity parameter $q$ and dimension $D$. We consider the isenthalpic curves in the $T- P$ plane for different values of the fixed black hole mass and obtain heating and cooling region. Finally we have dealt with two limiting masses which characterizes the process of Joule-Thomson expansion in the $EPYM$ black holes.
Inspired in the Standard Model of Elementary Particles, the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs action with the Higgs field in the SU(2) representation was proposed in Class. Quantum Grav. 32 (2015) 045002 as the element responsible for the dark energy phenomenon. We revisit this action emphasizing in a very important aspect not sufficiently explored in the original work and that substantially changes its conclusions. This aspect is the role that the Yang-Mills Higgs interaction plays at fixing the gauge for the Higgs field, in order to sustain a homogeneous and isotropic background, and at driving the late accelerated expansion of the Universe by moving the Higgs field away of the minimum of its potential and holding it towards an asymptotic finite value. We analyse the dynamical behaviour of this system and supplement this analysis with a numerical solution whose initial conditions are in agreement with the current observed values for the density parameters. This scenario represents a step towards a successful merging of cosmology and well-tested particle physics phenomenology.
In the context of the dark energy scenario, the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs model in the SO(3) representation was studied for the first time by M. Rinaldi (see JCAP 1510, 023 (2015)) in a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime. We revisit this model, finding in particular that the interaction between the Higgs field and the gauge fields generates contributions to the momentum density, anisotropic stress and pressures, thus making the model inconsistent with the assumed background. We instead consider a homogeneous but anisotropic Bianchi-I space-time background in this paper and analyze the corresponding dynamical behaviour of the system. We find that the only attractor point corresponds to an isotropic accelerated expansion dominated by the Higgs potential. However, the model predicts non-negligible anisotropic shear contributions nowadays, i.e. the current Universe can have hair although it will loose it in the future. We investigate the evolution of the equation of state for dark energy and highlight some possible consequences of its behaviour related to the process of large-scale structure formation. As a supplement, we propose the Higgs triad as a possibility to make the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs model be consistent with a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime.
We discuss the relation between spacetime diffeomorphisms and gauge transformations in theories of the Yang-Mills type coupled with Einsteins General Relativity. We show that local symmetries of the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms of these generally covariant gauge systems are equivalent when gauge transformations are required to induce transformations which are projectable under the Legendre map. Although pure Yang-Mills gauge transformations are projectable by themselves, diffeomorphisms are not. Instead the projectable symmetry group arises from infinitesimal diffeomorphism-inducing transformations which must depend on the lapse function and shift vector of the spacetime metric plus associated gauge transformations. Our results are generalizations of earlier results by ourselves and by Salisbury and Sundermeyer.