Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77:519
DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5073-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Einstein–Maxwell-axion theory: dyon solution with regular
electric field
Alexander B. Balakin
a
, Alexei E. Zayats
b
Department of General Relativity and Gravitation, Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya Street 18, Kazan 420008, Russia
Received: 29 March 2017 / Accepted: 17 July 2017 / Published online: 4 August 2017
© The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication
Abstract In the framework of the Einstein–Maxwell-axion
theory we consider static spherically symmetric solutions
which describe a magnetic monopole in the axionic environ-
ment. These solutions are interpreted as the solutions for an
axionic dyon, the electric charge of which is composite, i.e.
in addition to the standard central electric charge it includes
an effective electric charge induced by the axion–photon cou-
pling. We focus on the analysis of those solutions which are
characterized by the electric field regular at the center. Special
attention is paid to the solutions with the electric field that is
vanishing at the center, and that has the Coulombian asymp-
tote, and thus displays an extremum at some distant sphere.
Constraints on the electric and effective scalar charges of
such an object are discussed.
1 Introduction
In 1987 Wilczek has formulated the idea that for a distant
observer the magnetic monopole in an axionic environment
looks like a dyon with a magnetic and effective electric charge
[1]. This idea was based on the prediction of the axion electro-
dynamics where the interaction between the radial magnetic
field attributed to the monopole and the surrounding pseu-
doscalar (axion) field produces the radial electric field with-
out real electric charge at the center. That is why it is said that
Wilczek in 1987 presented the first example of the so-called
axionic dyon. The axion electrodynamics on which this result
was based have been established and developed in the decade
1977–1987, being inspired by the theoretical discovery of
Peccei and Quinn of the CP-invariance conservation [2] and
by discussions about a new light pseudo-Goldstone boson
introduced by Weinberg [3] and Wilczek [4]. The model of
a
e-mail: Alexander.Balakin@kpfu.ru
b
e-mail: Alexei.Zayats@kpfu.ru
the coupling of the pseudoscalar and electromagnetic fields
was formulated in a covariant form by Ni in [5]; the axion
electrodynamics written in the 3-dimensional form was used
by many authors (see, e.g., the work of Sikivie [6]). Since
the axions are considered to be candidates to the dark mat-
ter particles [7–15] the physics of axions had become one of
the key elements of numerous applications to cosmology and
astrophysics. These applications take into consideration var-
ious models of interaction of gravitational, electromagnetic,
scalar and pseudoscalar fields which are nowadays called
the Einstein–Maxwell-axion and Einstein–Maxwell-axion–
dilaton models (see, e.g., [16–18]). Also, these applications
focus the attention on the models which belong to the class
of theories associated with extended axion electrodynamics
[19–26].
In 1991 Lee and Weinberg [27] studied spherically sym-
metric solutions for static black holes with a massless axion-
like scalar field; in fact it was a realization of the Wilczek
idea in the framework of the Einstein–Maxwell-axion the-
ory. Lee and Weinberg have obtained self-consistent master
equations for the axion field and metric coefficients, ana-
lyzed the asymptotic properties of the solutions and stud-
ied the analytic and numeric solutions for the cases of large
and small values of the constant of the axion–photon cou-
pling. If we omit the initial electric charge at the center of the
object described in [27] we find the solution for the axionic
dyon, which was obtained in the framework of the Einstein–
Maxwell-axion model and was predicted in [1]usingthe
simple Maxwell-axion model. In this sense it can be said
that in [1,27] the authors presented the first (static) exam-
ple of the so-called longitudinal magneto-electric cluster in
which the magnetic and axionically induced electric fields
are parallel to one another. Later the solutions describing the
Longitudinal Clusters were found in the systems with the
pp-wave symmetry [28] and in the context of the search for
fingerprints of relic axions in the terrestrial magnetosphere
[29].
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