Thick domain walls around a black hole

Yoshiyuki Morisawa, Daisuke Ida, Akihiro Ishibashi, Ken-ichi Nakao

Published 2002-09-20, updated 2002-11-13Version 2

We discuss the gravitationally interacting system of a thick domain wall and a black hole. We numerically solve the scalar field equation in the Schwarzschild spacetime and obtain a sequence of static axi-symmetric solutions representing thick domain walls. We find that, for the walls near the horizon, the Nambu--Goto approximation is no longer valid.