NONTOPOLOGICAL SOLITONS AS THE POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF INTRINSIC EXTRAGALACTIC REDSHIFTS

We examine the possibility that intrinsic (non velocity caused) redshi fts, reported in the literature for more than twenty years, may be due to the appearance and subsequent ejection of non topological solitons from galactic nuclei. At the origin of this conjecture are, on one ha nd, the ability of Higgs type fields to modify the mass of the particl es, and on the other, some properties of soliton stars which we commen t below.