The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field
Abstract
We report on a numerical study of the spherically symmetric collapse of a self-gravitating massless scalar field. Earlier results of Choptuik(1992, 1994) are confirmed. The field either disperses to infinity or collapses to a black hole, depending on the strength of the initial data. For evolutions where the strength is close to but below the strength required to form a black hole, we argue that there will be a region close to the axis where the scalar curvature and field energy density can reach arbitrarily large levels, and which is visible to distant observers
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9506044,
title = {The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field},
author = {Rufus S. Hamade and John M. Stewart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9506044},
year = {2010}
}
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23 pages, 16 figures, uuencoded gzipped postscript This version omits 2 pages of figures. This file, the two pages of figures and the complete paper are available at ftp://ftp.damtp.cam.ac.uk/pub/gr/rsh1000