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Higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse and cosmic censorship

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by higher dimensional Tolman-Bondi space-times. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler. Higher dimensions seem to favour black holes rather than naked singularities.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0108011,
  title  = {Higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse and cosmic censorship},
  author = {S G Ghosh and A Beesham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0108011},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, 2 tables