English

Naked singularities in Tolman-Bondi-de Sitter collapse

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study the formation of central naked singularities in spherical dust collapse with a cosmological constant. We find that the central curvature singularity is locally naked, Tipler strong, and generic, in the sense that it forms from a non-zero-measure set of regular initial data. We also find that the Weyl and Ricci curvature scalars diverge at the singularity, with the former dominating over the latter, thereby signaling the non-local origin of the singularity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0012032,
  title  = {Naked singularities in Tolman-Bondi-de Sitter collapse},
  author = {Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0012032},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, RevTeX, 1 eps figure; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D