Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
This article reviews classical and quantum aspects of critical phenomena in gravitational collapse. We pay special attention to the origin of the scaling law for black hole mass, and to phase transitions in which black hole formation turns on at finite mass. We present some new results for perfect fluids with pressure proportional to density.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9812071,
title = {Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse},
author = {Patrick R Brady and Mike J Cai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9812071},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of 8th Marcel Grossmann Conference (World Scientific, Singapore)