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.
Cite
@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