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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…

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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…

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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…

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Effective models of gravitational collapse in loop quantum gravity for the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi spacetime predict that collapsing matter reaches a maximum finite density, bounces, and then expands outwards. We show that in the marginally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 Francesco Fazzini , Viqar Husain , 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

We derive effective equations with loop quantum gravity corrections for the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi family of space-times, and use these to study quantum gravity effects in the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse model. For this model, after the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-15 Jarod George Kelly , Robert Santacruz , Edward Wilson-Ewing

We study the quantum gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric pressureless dust. Using an effective equation derived from a polymer quantization in the connection-triad phase space variables of general relativity, we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Viqar Husain , Jarod George Kelly , Robert Santacruz , Edward Wilson-Ewing

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

In this work, the dynamics of a dust shell in an effective theory of spherically symmetric gravity containing quantum corrections from loop quantum gravity is investigated. To provide a consistent framework for including the dust, we go…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Hanno Sahlmann , Cong Zhang

We study the backreaction of quantum fields induced through the vacuum polarization and the conformal anomaly on the collapse of a thin shell of dust. It is shown that the final fate of the collapse process depends on the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Moslem Shafiee , Yousef Bahrampour

We consider general relativistic homogeneous gravitational collapses for dust and radiation. We show that replacing the density profile with an effective density justified by some quantum gravity framework leads to the avoidance of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-07 Cosimo Bambi , Daniele Malafarina , Leonardo Modesto

The dynamics of the gravitational collapse is examined in the realm of string based formalism of D-branes that encompass General Relativity as a low energy limit. A complete analytical solution is given to the spherically symmetric collapse…

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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…

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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

In a previous paper, some of us studied general relativistic homogeneous gravitational collapses for dust and radiation, in which the density profile was replaced by an effective density justified by some quantum gravity models. It was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Yue Liu , Daniele Malafarina , Leonardo Modesto , Cosimo Bambi

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

The physical interpretation and eventual fate of gravitational singularities in a theory surpassing classical general relativity are puzzling questions that have generated a great deal of interest among various quantum gravity approaches.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 Norbert Bodendorfer , Fabio M. Mele , Johannes Münch

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

Based on the effective dynamics in the $\bar \mu$ scheme of the spherical symmetry reduced model in the reduced phase space formulation of loop quantum gravity (LQG), we investigate the gravitational collapse of a homogeneous dust cloud,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Kristina Giesel , Muxin Han , Bao-Fei Li , Hongguang Liu , Parampreet Singh

We study the quantum dynamics of the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi space-times using a polymer quantization prescription based on loop quantum cosmology that incorporates fundamental discreteness. By solving an effective equation derived from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Viqar Husain , Jarod George Kelly , Robert Santacruz , Edward Wilson-Ewing
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