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Dressing a Naked Singularity: an Example

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-10-25 v2

Abstract

Considering the evolution of a perfect fluid with self-similarity of the second kind, we have found that an initial naked singularity can be trapped by an event horizon due to collapsing matter. The fluid moves along time-like geodesics with a self-similar parameter α=3\alpha = -3. Since the metric obtained is not asymptotically flat, we match the spacetime of the fluid with a Schwarzschild spacetime. All the energy conditions are fulfilled until the naked singularity.

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@article{arxiv.0805.2106,
  title  = {Dressing a Naked Singularity: an Example},
  author = {C. F. C. Brandt and R. Chan and M. F. A. da Silva and J. F. Villas da Rocha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2106},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure. This version corrects an error in the calculus of the pressure and in the conclusions

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