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Spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a dust cloud in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-10-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We explore the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric dust cloud in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity without a cosmological constant, and obtain three families of LTB-like solutions. It is shown that the Gauss-Bonnet term has a profound influence on the nature of singularities, and the global structure of space-time changes drastically from the analogous general relativistic case. Interestingly, the formation of a naked, massive and uncentral singularity, allowed in 5-dimensional space-time, is forbidden if D6D\geq6. Moreover, such singularity is gravitational strong and a serious counter example to CCH.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2728,
  title  = {Spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a dust cloud in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity},
  author = {Kang Zhou and Zhan-Ying Yang and De-Cheng Zou and Rui-Hong Yue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2728},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures and accepted by Mod. Phys. Lett. A