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Nature of singularity in Einstein-massless scalar theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the static and spherically symmetric exact solution of the Einstein-massless scalar equations given by Janis, Newman and Winicour. We find that this solution satisfies the weak energy condition and has strong globally naked singularity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9512030,
  title  = {Nature of singularity in Einstein-massless scalar theory},
  author = {K. S. Virbhadra and S. Jhingan and P. S. Joshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9512030},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, LaTex, no figures, misprints corrected, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D