English

Strong curvature singularities in quasispherical asymptotically de Sitter dust collapse

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the occurrence, visibility, and curvature strength of singularities in dust-containing Szekeres spacetimes (which possess no Killing vectors) with a positive cosmological constant. We find that such singularities can be locally naked, Tipler strong, and develop from a non-zero-measure set of regular initial data. When examined along timelike geodesics, the singularity's curvature strength is found to be independent of the initial data.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0109025,
  title  = {Strong curvature singularities in quasispherical asymptotically de Sitter dust collapse},
  author = {Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0109025},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, LaTeX, uses IOP package, 2 eps figures; accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav