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Naked singularities in cylindrical collapse of counter-rotating dust shells

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Authors: Brien C. Nolan

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Abstract

Solutions describing the gravitational collapse of asymptotically flat cylindrical and prolate shells of (null) dust are shown to admit globally naked singularities.

Keywords

naked singularities cylindrical collapse counter-rotating dust shells gravitational collapse asymptotically flat

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0204036,
  title  = {Naked singularities in cylindrical collapse of counter-rotating dust shells},
  author = {Brien C. Nolan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0204036},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 8 ps figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D