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In this paper, radiating fluids scaling laws are studied. We focus on optically thin and optically thick regimes which are relevant for both astrophysics and laboratory experiments. By using homothetic Lie groups, we obtain the scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Emeric Falize , Serge Bouquet , Claire Michaut

This paper constructs continuously self-similar solution of a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a scalar field in n dimensions. The qualitative behavior of these solutions is explained, and closed-form answers are provided…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Andrei V. Frolov

There is evidence of a scale-invariant matter distribution up to scales over 10 Megaparsecs. We review scaling (fractal or multifractal) models of large scale structure and their observational evidence. We conclude that the dynamics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Gaite , Alvaro Dominguez

In recent numerical simulations of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse a new type of critical behaviour, dominated by a sphaleron solution, has been found. In contrast to the previously studied models, in this case there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 P. Bizoń , T. Chmaj

We study the gravitational collapse of an overdensity of nonrelativistic matter under the action of gravity and a chameleon scalar field. We show that the spherical collapse model is modified by the presence of a chameleon field. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ph. Brax , R. Rosenfeld , D. A. Steer

In this paper, we present the results on the gravitational collapse of charged massless scalar field in asymptotically flat spacetime with a perfectly reflecting wall. Differing from previous works, we study the system in the double null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang

Research done during the previous century established our Standard Cosmological Model. There are many details still to be filled in, but few would seriously doubt the basic premise. Past surveys have revealed that the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard J. T. Jones , Vicent J. Martinez , Enn Saar , Virginia Trimble

We present a thermodynamic analysis of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse. Using the Hayward-Kodama formalism, we treat a collapsing sphere as a thermodynamic system and express the surface gravity $\kappa_{hk}$ in terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Soumya Chakrabarti

Percolation is a cornerstone concept in physics, providing crucial insights into critical phenomena and phase transitions. In this study, we adopt a kinetic perspective to reveal the scaling behaviors of higher-order gaps in the largest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sheng Fang , Qing Lin , Jun Meng , Bingsheng Chen , Jan Nagler , Youjin Deng , Jingfang Fan

We study through numerical simulation the spherical collapse of isothermal gas in Newtonian gravity. We observe a critical behavior which occurs at the threshold of gravitational instability leading to core formation. For a given initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomohiro Harada , Hideki Maeda , Benoit Semelin

It is known that radial collapse around density peaks can explain the key features of evolution of correlation function in gravitational clustering in three dimensions. The same model also makes specific predictions for two dimensions. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. S. Bagla , S. Engineer , T. Padmanabhan

Stability of self-similar solutions for gravitational collapse is an important problem to be investigated from the perspectives of their nature as an attractor, critical phenomena and instability of a naked singularity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eiji Mitsuda , Akira Tomimatsu

We present results from a numerical study of critical gravitational collapse of axisymmetric distributions of massless scalar field energy. We find threshold behavior that can be described by the spherically symmetric critical solution with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. W. Choptuik , E. W. Hirschmann , S. L. Liebling , F. Pretorius

We show that black holes fulfill the scaling laws arising in critical transitions. In particular, we find that in the transition from negative to positive values the heat capacities $C_{JQ}$, $C_{\Omega Q}$ and $C_{J\Phi}$ give rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. O. Lousto

We study the critical collapse of a massless scalar field with angular momentum in spherical symmetry. In order to mimic the effects of angular momentum we perform a sum of the stress-energy tensors for all the scalar fields with the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Olabarrieta , Jason F. Ventrella , Matthew W. Choptuik , W. G. Unruh

We study the collapse in spherical symmetry of a massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity using the semiclassical equations that are expected from loop quantum gravity. We find critical behavior of the mass as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Florencia Benitez , Rodolfo Gambini , Luis Lehner , Steve Liebling , Jorge Pullin

The critical rheology of sheared frictional granular materials near jamming transition is numer- ically investigated. It is confirmed that there exist a true critical density which characterizes the onset of the yield stress, and two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michio Otsuki , Hisao Hayakawa

The junction conditions between static and non-static space-times are studied for analyzing gravitational collapse in the presence of a cosmological constant. We have discussed about the apparent horizon and their physical significance. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ujjal Debnath , Soma Nath , Subenoy Chakraborty

We propose that large quantum fluctuations of the conformal factor drastically modify classical general relativity at cosmological distance scales, resulting in a scale invariant phase of quantum gravity in the far infrared. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 I. Antoniadis , P. O. Mazur , E. Mottola

Scaling laws illuminate Nature's fundamental biological principles and guide bioinspired materials and structural designs. In simple cases they are based on the fundamental principle that all laws of nature remain unchanged (i.e.,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Huan Liu , Shashank Priya , Richard D. James