Glueball condensates as holographic duals of supersymmetric Q-balls and boson stars

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We study non-spinning Q-balls and boson stars in 4-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time.

• We use an exponential scalar field potential that appears in gauge-mediated supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM).
• We investigate the dependence of the charge and mass of these non-topological solitons on the negative cosmological constant, the frequency that appears in the periodic time-dependence as well as on the ratio between the SUSY breaking scale and the Planck mass.
• Next to fundamental solutions without nodes in the scalar field function we also construct radially excited solutions.