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Future-null singularity due to gravitational collapse

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-02-23 v2

Abstract

In the case of unhindered gravitational collapse of matter cloud governed by the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) spacetime, the end-state singularity is either locally visible, globally visible or completely hidden. We have a past-null singularity in the first two cases while a future-spacelike singularity in the last case. Here, we show an example of a gravitational collapse model whose end-state is a future-null-singularity (it has a causal property that is unlike the cases involving LTB spacetime). We depict such a distinct causal structure of the singularity by conformal diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.2310.01222,
  title  = {Future-null singularity due to gravitational collapse},
  author = {Ashok B. Joshi and Karim Mosani and Pankaj S. Joshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.01222},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:38:19.308Z