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What is the spacetime of {\em physically realizable} spherical collapse?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We argue that a particular spacetime, a spherically symmetric spacetime with hyper-surface orthogonal, radial, homothetic Killing vector, is a physically meaningful spacetime that describes the problem of spherical gravitational collapse in its full "physical" generality.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0209001,
  title  = {What is the spacetime of {\em physically realizable} spherical collapse?},
  author = {Sanjay M. Wagh and Ravindra V. Saraykar and Keshlan S. Govinder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0209001},
  year   = {2007}
}

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