On the global existence of spherically symmetric hairy black holes and solitons in anti-de Sitter Einstein-Yang-Mills theories with compact semisimple gauge groups

Abstract: We investigate the existence of black hole and soliton solutions to four dimensional, anti-de Sitter (adS), Einstein-Yang-Mills theories with general semisimple connected and simply connected gauge groups, concentrating on the so-called "regular" case. We here generalise results for the asymptotically flat case, and compare our system with similar results from the well-researched adS $\mathfrak{su}(N)$ system. We find the analysis differs from the asymptotically flat case in some important ways: the biggest difference is that for $\Lambda<0$, solutions are much less constrained as $r\rightarrow\infty$, making it possible to prove the existence of global solutions to the field equations in some neighbourhood of existing trivial solutions, and in the limit of $|\Lambda|\rightarrow\infty$. In particular, we can identify non-trivial solutions where the gauge field functions have no zeroes, which in the $\mathfrak{su}(N)$ case proved important to stability.