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The collapse scenario of a scalar field along with a perfect fluid distribution is investigated for a conformally flat spacetime. The theorem for the integrability of an anharmonic oscillator has been utilized. For a pure power law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Soumya Chakrabarti , Narayan Banerjee

We investigate cosmological models described by a scalar field with an exponential potential, and apply the stochastic formalism, which allows us to study how quantum field fluctuations give rise to stochastic noise. This modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-24 Tays Miranda , Emmanuel Frion , David Wands

We investigate the gravitational collapse of a massive scalar field in a conformally flat, spherically symmetric spacetime within general relativity. The collapsing matter distribution is modeled using a minimally coupled homogeneous scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Mohamed Aarif A , Soumya Chakrabarti

Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse are characterized by the emergence of surprising structure in solution space, namely the appearance of universal power-laws and periodicities near the threshold of collapse, and a universal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Krinio Marouda , Daniela Cors , Hannes R. Rüter , Florian Atteneder , David Hilditch

We present the findings of an investigation of critical behavior in the collapse of spherically symmetric distributions of massive scalar field. Two distinct types of phase transition are observed at the verge of black hole formation and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris M. Chambers , Patrick R. Brady , Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

We investigate non-spherically symmetric, scalar field collapse of a family of initial data consisting of a spherically symmetric profile with a deformation proportional to the real part of the spherical harmonic $Y_{21}(\theta,\varphi)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-31 James Healy , Pablo Laguna

We elaborated the gravitational collapse of a self-gravitating complex charged scalar field in the context of the low-energy limit of the string theory, the so-called dilaton gravity. We begin with the regular spacetime and follow the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Anna Borkowska , Marek Rogatko , Rafal Moderski

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

We study the gravitational collapse of a non-interacting mix of perfect fluid and a spatially homogeneous scalar field within a Chiellini-integrable framework. We choose an extended Higgs-type self-interaction potential and reduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Mohamed Aarif A , Soumya Chakrabarti

We study spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in cubic Horndeski theories of gravity. By varying the coupling constants and the initial amplitude of the scalar field, we determine the region in the space of couplings and amplitudes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-18 Pau Figueras , Tiago França

We investigated the problem of the dynamical collapse of a self-gravitating complex charged scalar field in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a phantom copuling for the adequate fields in the system under consideration. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Nakonieczna , Marek Rogatko , Rafal Moderski

We consider the collapse of a charged radiation fluid in a Planck-suppressed quadratic extension of General Relativity (GR) formulated \`{a} la Palatini. We obtain exact analytical solutions that extend the charged Vaidya-type solution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-06 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Jesus Martinez-Asencio , Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia

A massless scalar field minimally coupled to the gravitational field in a simplified spherical symmetry is discussed. It is shown that, in this case, the solution found by Roberts, describing a scalar field collapse, is in fact the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 H. P. de Oliveira , E. S. Cheb-Terrab , DFT-UERJ , Brazil

We study the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of massless scalar matter field in asymptotic flat spacetime in $f(R)$ gravity. In the Einstein frame of $f(R)$ gravity, an additional scalar field arises due to the conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang

In this letter, we develop a Newtonian approach to the collapse of galaxy fluctuations of scalar field dark matter under initial conditions inferred from simple assumptions. The full relativistic system, the so called Einstein-Klein-Gordon,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Siddhartha Guzman , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

The gravitational collapse of a triplet scalar field is examined assuming a hedgehog ansatz for the scalar field. Whereas the seminal work by Choptuik with a single, strictly spherically symmetric scalar field found a discretely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Steven L. Liebling

We consider a "Scalar-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet" theory in four dimension, where the scalar field couples non minimally with the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term. This coupling with the scalar field ensures the non topological character of the GB term.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Narayan Banerjee , Tanmoy Paul

We study the dynamics of the critical collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. Approximate analytic expressions for the metric functions and matter field in the large-radius region are obtained. In the central region, owing to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Jun-Qi Guo , Yu Hu , Pan-Pan Wang , Cheng-Gang Shao

We report a new critical solution found at the threshold of axisymmetric gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field with angular momentum. To carry angular momentum the scalar field cannot be axisymmetric; however, its azimuthal…

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

Gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field with the periodic boundary condition in a cubic box is reported. This system can be regarded as a lattice universe model. We construct the initial data for a Gaussian like profile of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Chul-Moon Yoo , Taishi Ikeda , Hirotada Okawa