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Gravitational collapse of barotropic spherical fluids

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

The gravitational collapse of spherical, barotropic perfect fluids is analyzed here. For the first time, the final state of these systems is studied without resorting to simplifying assumptions - such as self-similarity - using a new approach based on non-linear o.d.e. techniques, and formation of naked singularities is shown to occur for solutions such that the mass function is analytic in a neighborhood of the spacetime singularity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0303043,
  title  = {Gravitational collapse of barotropic spherical fluids},
  author = {Roberto Giambo' and Fabio Giannoni and Giulio Magli and Paolo Piccione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0303043},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, LaTeX2e