Naked singularities in higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by a non self-similar higher dimensional Tolman spacetime. The necessary condition for the formation of a naked singularity or a black hole is obtained. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler and provide another example that violates the cosmic censorship conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0003109,
title = {Naked singularities in higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse},
author = {S G Ghosh and A Beesham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0003109},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, LaTeX, no figures