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The late-time accelerated expansion of the universe could be caused by a scalar field that is screened on small scales, as in chameleon or symmetron scenarios. We present an analogy between thin shell configurations of such scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-31 Katherine Jones-Smith , Francesc Ferrer

We study the singularity created in the supercritical collapse of a spherical massless scalar field. We first model the geometry and the scalar field to be homogeneous, and find a generic solution (in terms of a formal series expansion)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lior M. Burko

We extend the chameleon models by considering Scalar-Fluid theories where the coupling between matter and the scalar field can be represented by a quadratic effective potential with density-dependent minimum and mass. In this context, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Philippe Brax , Nicola Tamanini

In the last four decades different programs have been carried out aiming at understanding the final fate of gravitational collapse of massive bodies once some prescriptions for the behaviour of gravity in the strong field regime are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-29 Daniele Malafarina

We investigate the dynamics and the phase-space evolution for the scalar nonmetricity cosmology with a Chameleon mechanism. In particular, we consider a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker geometry and within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-09 Andronikos Paliathanasis

In a recent paper we showed that the collapse to a black hole in one-parameter families of initial data for massless, minimally coupled scalar fields in spherically symmetric semi-classical loop quantum gravity exhibited a universal mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Florencia Benítez , Rodolfo Gambini , Steven L. Liebling , Jorge Pullin

We explore semiclassical stellar collapse scenarios with pressure within the framework of effective loop quantum gravity. The objective of this work is to generalize existent models of semiclassical dust collapse and examine the role of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Luca Cafaro , Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Farshid Soltani

This paper presents two interesting scaling laws, which relate some critical exponents in the critical behavior of spherically symmetric gravitational collapses. These scaling laws are independent of the details of gravity theory under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-23 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang

In inhomogeneous cosmology, restricting attention to an irrotational dust matter model, backreaction arises in terms of the deviation of the averaged spatial scalar curvature from a constant-curvature model on some averaging domain $D$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-12 Quentin Vigneron , Thomas Buchert

Super-chameleon models where all types of matter belong to three secluded sectors, i.e. the dark, supersymmetry breaking and matter sectors, are shown to be dynamically equivalent to ultra-local models of modified gravity. In the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Philippe Brax , Luca Alberto Rizzo , Patrick Valageas

We summarize results from a study of spherically symmetric collapse of a {\it charged} (complex) massless scalar-field \cite{Hod}. We present an analytic argument which conjecture the generalization of the mass-scaling relation and echoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Shahar Hod , Tsvi Piran

In this work we study the dynamics of gravitational collapse of a homogeneous dust sphere in a model exhibiting a linear non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. The evolution of the scale factor and the matter density is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-12 J. Páramos , C. Bastos

We study structure formation in K-mouflage cosmology whose main feature is the absence of screening effect on quasilinear scales. We show that the growth of structure at the linear level is affected by both a new time dependent Newton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

In this work we systematically study the linear and nonlinear structure formation in chameleon theories of modified gravity, using a generic parameterisation which describes a large class of models using only 4 parameters. For this we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Philippe Brax , Anne-C. Davis , Baojiu Li , Hans A. Winther , Gong-Bo Zhao

We solve numerically the equations of motion for the collapse of a shell of baryonic matter falling into the central regions of a cluster of galaxies, taking into account of the presence of the substructure inducing dynamical friction. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo , M. Gambera , V. Antonuccio-Delogu

Some collapse models proposed that gravitational effects cause the instability of mass distribution superpositions, leading to wave function collapse. In this paper, we utilize the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE) to analyze the behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Moslem Zarei

We explore numerically the evolution of a collapsing spherical shell of charged, massless scalar field. We obtain an external \RN space-time, and an inner space-time that is bounded by a singularity on the Cauchy Horizon. We compare these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yonatan Oren , Tsvi Piran

This paper studies intermediate homogenization of inhomogeneous cosmological models. It shows that spherically symmetric models, regardless of the equation of state, can undergo intermediate homogenization, i.e. a model can approach a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-27 Krzysztof Bolejko , William R. Stoeger

We study spherical collapse of a scalar cloud in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity - a theory in which black holes can develop scalar hair if they are in a certain mass range. We show that an additional quadratic coupling of the scalar field to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-05 Farid Thaalba , Miguel Bezares , Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We study the tachyon scalar field model in flat FRW cosmology with the particular potential $\phi^{-2}$ and the scale factor behavior $a(t)=t^n$. We consider the spherical collapse model and investigate the effects of the tachyon scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 M. R. Setare , F. Felegary , F. Darabi