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We investigate self-similar scalar field solutions to the Einstein equations in whole cylinder symmetry. Imposing self-similarity on the spacetime gives rise to a set of single variable functions describing the metric. Furthermore, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-07 Eoin Condron , Brien C. Nolan

We study gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust cloud in the Lovelock theory without cosmological constant. We show that the final fate of gravitational collapse in this theory depends on the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Seiju Ohashi , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Sanjay Jhingan

We investigate here spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in a spacetime with an arbitrary number of dimensions and with a general {\it type I} matter field, which is a broad class that includes most of the physically reasonable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S Joshi

In order to study the gravitational collapse of charged matter we analyze the simple model of an self-gravitating massless scalar field coupled to the electromagnetic field in spherical symmetry. The evolution equations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-07 Jose M. Torres , Miguel Alcubierre

In this work, we propose a model of the gravitational collapse of dark matter in the presence of quintessence or phantom-like scalar fields. Our treatment is based on the principles of general relativity up to virialization. We have chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Priyanka Saha , Dipanjan Dey , Kaushik Bhattacharya

The Standard Model Higgs potential may become unbounded from below at large field values, with important cosmological implications. For a potential of this form, the commonly assumed scenario of a nucleated thin-wall bubble driving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Nikolaos Tetradis

We prove a No-Go theorem for singularity resolution in gravitational collapse: within any analytic gravitational theory, including general relativity and all theories with polynomial actions, quantum corrections introduced solely as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Zhen-Xiao Zhang , Chen Lan , Yan-Gang Miao

We investigate self-similar scalar field solutions to the Einstein equations in whole cylinder symmetry. Imposing self-similarity on the spacetime gives rise to a set of single variable functions describing the metric. Furthermore, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 Eoin Condron , Brien C. Nolan

Spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust collapse has been studied in higher dimensional space-time and appearance of naked singularity has been analyzed both for non-marginal and marginally bound cases. It has been shown that naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ujjal Debnath , Subenoy Chakraborty

We analyze the problem of gravitational collapse considering the matching of an exterior region described by the Vaidya's metric and an interior region described by a spherically symmetric shear-free inhomogeneous geometry sourced by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Eduardo Bittencourt , Vanessa P Freitas , José M Salim , Grasiele B Santos

We investigate the end state of the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud in higher dimensional space-time. The naked singularities are shown to be developing as the final outcome of non-marginally bound collapse. The naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ujjal Debnath , Subenoy Chakraborty

We find the general solution of the Einstein equation for spherically symmetric collapse of Type II fluid (null strange quark fluid) in higher dimensions. It turns out that the nakedness and curvature strength of the shell focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 S. G. Ghosh , Naresh Dadhich

We analyze analytically and numerically the origin of the singularity in the course of the collapse of a wormhole with the exotic scalar field Psi with negative energy density, and with this field Psi together with the ordered magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Elena I. Novikova , Igor D. Novikov

We study the evolution of an anisotropic shear-free fluid with heat flux and kinematic self-similarity of the second kind. We found a class of solution to the Einstein field equations by assuming that the part of the tangential pressure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-13 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , C. F. C. Brandt

The global visibility of a singularity as an end state of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric pressureless cloud is investigated. We show the existence of a non-zero measured set of parameters: the total mass and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Karim Mosani , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

We investigate gravitational collapse of thick shell of fluid in the isotropic homogeneous universe without radiation described by the Einstein gravity with cosmological constant. We construct analytic solutions of this kind interpolating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Shuichi Yokoyama

We use 1-dimensional numerical simulations to study spherical collapse in the f(R) gravity models. We include the nonlinear coupling of the gravitational potential to the scalar field in the theory and use a relaxation scheme to follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alex Borisov , Bhuvnesh Jain , Pengjie Zhang

The gravitational collapse of a wide class of self-interacting homogeneous scalar fields models is analyzed. The class is characterized by certain general conditions on the scalar field potential, which, in particular, include both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-24 R. Giambó , F. Giannoni , G. Magli

In this work, we consider a semiclassical description of the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse with a massless scalar field. In particular, we employ an effective scenario provided by holonomy corrections from loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-21 Yaser Tavakoli , Joao Marto , Andrea Dapor

This study examines the gravitational collapse of an overdense dark matter region in a coupled scalar field dark energy scenario within a flat FLRW background. It finds that, depending on the initial conditions, some overdense regions avoid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Priyanka Saha , Dipanjan Dey , Kaushik Bhattacharya