A soliton menagerie in AdS

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We explore the behaviour of charged scalar solitons in asymptotically global AdS4 spacetimes.

• This is motivated in part by attempting to identify under what circumstances such objects can become large relative to the AdS length scale.
• We demonstrate that such solitons generically do get large and in fact in the planar limit smoothly connect up with the zero temperature limit of planar scalar hair black holes.
• In particular, for given Lagrangian parameters we encounter multiple branches of solitons: some which are perturbatively connected to the AdS vacuum and surprisingly, some which are not.