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Regular black hole spacetimes are obtained from an effective Lagrangian for Quantum Einstein Gravity. The interior matter is modeled as a dust fluid, which interacts with the geometry through a multiplicative coupling function denoted as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Alfio Bonanno , Daniele Malafarina , Antonio Panassiti

We consider the gravitational collapse of self-gravitating spherical dust cloud in the Hamiltonian formalism. We address both homogeneous and inhomogeneous cases. Our novel derivation of the Hamiltonian of the system is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Nick Kwidzinski , Daniele Malafarina , Jan Ostrowski , Włodzimierz Piechocki , Tim Schmitz

We study the occurrence and nature of naked singularities for a dust model with non-zero cosmological constant in ($n+2$)-dimensional Szekeres space-times (which possess no Killing vectors) for $n\geq 2$. We find that central shell-focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ujjal Debnath , Subenoy Chakraborty , John D. Barrow

Some dynamical aspects of gravitational collapse are explored in this paper. A time-dependent spherically symmetric metric is proposed and the corresponding Einstein field equations are derived. An ultrarelativistic dust-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-08 Miquel Pinol

We present a non-perturbative quantization of general relativity coupled to dust and other matter fields. The dust provides a natural time variable, leading to a physical Hamiltonian with spatial diffeomorphism symmetry. The surprising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Viqar Husain , Tomasz Pawlowski

We model the gravitational collapse of heavy massive shells including its main quantum corrections. Among these corrections, quantum improvements coming from Quantum Einstein Gravity are taken into account, which provides us with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Torres , F. Fayos

In the present work, we revisit the process of gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric homogeneous dust fluid which is known as the Oppenheimer-Snyder (OS) model [1]. We show that such a scenario would not end in a spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-25 Mostafa Hashemi , Shahram Jalalzadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

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

There is a viable vector-tensor gravity (VTG) theory, whose vector field produces repulsive forces leading to important effects. In the background universe, the effect of these forces is an accelerated expansion identical to that produced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 R. Dale , D. Sáez

We investigate here the final state of gravitational collapse of a non-spherical and non-marginally bound dust cloud as modeled by the Szekeres spacetime. We show that a directionally globally naked singularity can be formed in this case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi , Karim Mosani , Vitalii Vertogradov

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

We consider here the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust cloud described by the Tolman-Bondi models. By studying a general class of these models, we find that the end state of the collapse is either a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 P. S. Joshi , T. P. Singh

The coupling of the metric to an incoherent dust introduces into spacetime a privileged dynamical reference frame and time foliation. The comoving coordinates of the dust particles and the proper time along the dust worldlines become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 J. D. Brown , K. V. Kuchar

We perform canonical analysis of a model in which gravity is coupled to a spherically symmetric dust shell in 2+1 spacetime dimensions. The result is a reduced action depending on a finite number of degrees of freedom. The emphasis is made…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Alexander Andrianov , Yasser Elmahalawy , Artem Starodubtsev

We give a formulation of quantum cosmology with a pressureless dust and arbitrary additional matter fields. The system has the property that its Hamiltonian constraint is linear in the dust momentum. This feature provides a natural time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Viqar Husain , Tomasz Pawlowski

Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi models as specific spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity simplify in their reduced form some of the mathematical ingredients of black hole or cosmological applications. The conditions imposed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Tomohiro Harada , Rakesh Tibrewala

To study the interaction of star-formation and turbulent molecular cloud structuring, we analyse numerical models and observations of self-gravitating clouds using the Delta-variance as statistical measure for structural characteristics. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Volker Ossenkopf , Ralf Klessen , Fabian Heitsch

We study the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe with pressureless dust (modeled via the Brown-Kucha\v{r} formalism) and a dynamical cosmological constant $\Lambda$ treated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Dipayan Mukherjee , S. Shankaranarayanan

We investigate the quantum fate of the classical singularities that occur by gravitational collapse of a dust cloud. For this purpose, we address the quantization of a model first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1933. We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Claus Kiefer , Hamid Mohaddes

We study the effects of shear and density inhomogeneities in the formation of naked singularities in spherically symmetric dust space--times. We find that in general neither of these physical features alone uniquely specifies the end state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Filipe C. Mena , Brien C. Nolan , Reza Tavakol