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Critical Exponents and Stability at the Black Hole Threshold for a Complex Scalar Field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v3

Abstract

This paper continues a study on Choptuik scaling in gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field at the threshold for black hole formation. We perform a linear perturbation analysis of the previously derived complex critical solution, and calculate the critical exponent for black hole mass, γ0.387106\gamma \approx 0.387106. We also show that this critical solution is unstable via a growing oscillatory mode.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9506078,
  title  = {Critical Exponents and Stability at the Black Hole Threshold for a Complex Scalar Field},
  author = {Eric W. Hirschmann and Douglas M. Eardley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9506078},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages of latex/revtex; added details of numerics, in press in Phys Rev D; 1 figure included, or available by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp.itp.ucsb.edu/figures/nsf-itp-95-58.eps