Monopole solutions in AdS space

We find monopole solutions for a spontaneously broken SU(2)-Higgs system coupled to gravity in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We present new analytic and numerical results discussing, in particular, how the gravitational instability of self-gravitating monopoles depends on the value of the cosmological constant. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.