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We study the occurrence of shell crossing in spherical weakly charged dust collapse in the presence of a non-vanishing cosmological constant. We find that shell crossing always occurs from generic time-symmetric regular initial data, near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

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

We study gravitational collapse in effective loop quantum gravity, focusing on non-marginally bound configurations in Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi spacetimes. In the homogeneous limit we recover the effective dynamics of loop quantum cosmology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Edward Wilson-Ewing

Models of effective stellar collapse inspired by loop quantum gravity predict a bounce when the stellar energy density reaches the Planck scale, typically followed by the formation of shell-crossing singularities. This work aims to extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Michał Bobula , Francesco Fazzini

Effective models inspired by loop quantum gravity typically resolve the central singularity by replacing it with a bounce of the matter density in the Planckian regime. In the specific model analyzed here, this bounce is generally followed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Francesco Fazzini

While studying the continual gravitational collapse of a massive matter cloud in general relativity towards examining collapse final states, an important issue is that of whether shell-crossing singularities can develop as the collapse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-30 Pankaj S. Joshi , Ravindra V. Saraykar

Spherically symmetric effective dust collapse inspired by effective loop quantum cosmology predicts a bounce when the stellar energy density becomes planckian, which in turn inevitably leads to shell-crossing singularity formation. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Francesco Fazzini

Effective dust collapse inspired by loop quantum gravity predicts two main features for general realistic initial profiles: a quantum gravitational bounce of the stellar core, when the energy density becomes planckian, and shell-crossing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Francesco Fazzini

In spherical symmetry, gravitational collapse of dust may give rise to the so-called shell-crossing singularities, beyond which spacetime can be extended using weak solutions to the integrated version of the equations of motion. We argue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Francesco Fazzini , Hassan Mehmood

We study the causal structure for spherically symmetric dust collapse within a model of effective loop quantum gravity in midisuperspace framework. We develop a general strategy (working beyond the dynamical model of our consideration) for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Michał Bobula , Tomasz Pawłowski

An expanding spherically symmetric dust cloud is considered in a framework of general relativity. Initial conditions leading to a shell-crossing singularity are chosen. The way to construct a weak solution for such a case is proposed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Sergey Ph. Tegai

We investigate the fate of the classical singularity in a collapsing dust cloud. For this purpose, we quantize the marginally bound Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi model for spherically-symmetric dust collapse by considering each dust shell in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Claus Kiefer , Tim Schmitz

We will describe here the structure of singularity forming in gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust. Such a collapse is described by the Tolman-Bondi-Lema{\^i}tre metric. The main new result here relates, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Jhingan

We study the effect of charge on gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous dust cloud in the Einstein, Gauss-Bonnet and Lovelock gravity. Dynamics of the collapsing shell is analyzed. The conditions for the occurrence of bounce during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-30 Seiju Ohashi , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Sanjay Jhingan

We study here the structure of singularity forming in gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust. Such a collapse is described by the Tolman-Bondi-Lema{\^i}tre metric, which is a two-parameter family of solutions to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Jhingan , P. S. Joshi

We derive global weak solutions of Einstein's equations for spherically symmetric dust-filled space-times which admit shell-crossing singularities. In the marginally bound case, the solutions are weak solutions of a conservation law. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Brien C. Nolan

We consider the dynamics of timelike spherical thin matter shells in vacuum. A general formalism for thin shells matching two arbitrary spherical spacetimes is derived, and subsequently specialized to the vacuum case. We first examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

Within the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi formalism for gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous dust we analyze the parameter space that leads to the formation of a globally covered singularity (i.e. a black hole) when some physically reasonable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-09 Pankaj S. Joshi , Daniele Malafarina

We investigate gravitational dust collapse within an effective loop quantum gravity (LQG)-inspired model exhibiting an asymmetric bounce in the marginally bound case. This work extends previous studies, which have predominantly focused on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Kristina Giesel , Hongguang Liu , Eric Rullit

We present a loop quantization of the marginally bound Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model, describing the gravitational collapse of pressureless dust in spherical symmetry. The full quantum LTB model is constructed as a collection of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Luca Cafaro , Farshid Soltani
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