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Scalar field collapse and cosmic censorship

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-02-29 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze here the final fate of complete gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field within general relativity. A class of dynamical solutions with initial data close to the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) collapse model is explicitly given and the Einstein equations are integrated numerically in a neighborhood of the center. We show that the initial data space is evenly divided between the dynamical evolutions that terminate in a black hole final state and those that produce a locally naked singularity. We comment on the genericity aspects of the collapse end-states and the connection to cosmic censorship conjecture is pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6218,
  title  = {Scalar field collapse and cosmic censorship},
  author = {Rituparno Goswami and Pankaj S. Joshi and Daniele Malafarina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6218},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure