Gravitational collapse with rotating thin shells and cosmic censorship
Abstract
Gravitational collapse of matter in the presence of rotation is a mostly unexplored topic but it might have important implications for cosmic censorship. Recently a convenient setup was identified to address this problem, by considering thin matter shells at the interface between two equal angular momenta Myers-Perry spacetimes in five dimensions. This note provides more details about the matching of such cohomogeneity-1 spacetimes and extends the results obtained therein to arbitrary higher odd dimensions. It is also pointed out that oscillatory orbits for shells in asymptotically flat spacetimes can be naturally obtained if the matter has a negative pressure component.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.06724,
title = {Gravitational collapse with rotating thin shells and cosmic censorship},
author = {Jorge V. Rocha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06724},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the VII Black Holes Workshop; v2: references updated and minor corrections, matches version to be published in International Journal of Modern Physics D