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Black hole formation from a complete regular past

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

An open problem in general relativity has been to construct an asymptotically flat solution to a reasonable Einstein-matter system containing a black hole in the future and yet past-causally geodesically complete, in particular, containing no white holes. We give such an example in this paper--in fact, a family of such examples, stable in a suitable sense--for the case of a self-gravitating scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310040,
  title  = {Black hole formation from a complete regular past},
  author = {Mihalis Dafermos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310040},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures

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