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Quasi-Spherical Gravitational Collapse in Any Dimension

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We study the occurrence and nature of naked singularities for a dust model with non-zero cosmological constant in (n+2n+2)-dimensional Szekeres space-times (which possess no Killing vectors) for n2n\geq 2. We find that central shell-focusing singularities may be locally naked in higher dimensions but depend sensitively on the choice of initial data. In fact, the nature of the initial density determines the possibility of naked singularity in space-times with more than five dimensions. The results are similar to the collapse in spherically symmetric Tolman-Bondi-Lema\^{\i}tre space-times.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0305075,
  title  = {Quasi-Spherical Gravitational Collapse in Any Dimension},
  author = {Ujjal Debnath and Subenoy Chakraborty and John D. Barrow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0305075},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 Latex pages, No figure, Revtex style