Singularity-Free Collapse through Local Inflation
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In common relativistic models of gravitational collapse, the interior experiences a bubble-like local inflation, allowing radii to diverge rather than converge toward a singularity. This proves a conjecture of Shatskiy. At the horizon, the solution locally resembles the neck of a wormhole from the exterior to the interior. The implied limiting curvature is at the horizon not the Planck level.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506506,
title = {Singularity-Free Collapse through Local Inflation},
author = {Hunter Monroe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506506},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages. Paper prepared in honor of the retirement of L.R. King. This version shortens introduction