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The 2+1-dimensional geodesic circularly symmetric solutions of Einstein-massless-scalar field equations with negative cosmological constant are found and their local and global properties are studied. It is found that one of them represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , Jaime F. Villas da Rocha

This paper studies gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field at the threshold for black hole formation, assuming that the collapse is spherically symmetric and continuously self-similar. A new solution of the coupled Einstein-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Eric W. Hirschmann , Douglas M. Eardley

In this paper, we present the results on the gravitational collapse of charged massless scalar field in asymptotically flat spacetime with a perfectly reflecting wall. Differing from previous works, we study the system in the double null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang

We show that for n-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with mass-squared m_0^2=-n(n-2)/(4\ell^2), the first law of thermodynamics of (charged) AdS black holes will be modified by the boundary conditions of the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu

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 present the first numerical simulations in null coordinates of the collapse of nonspherical regular initial data to a black hole. We restrict to twist-free axisymmetry, and re-investigate the critical collapse of a non-spherical massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Carsten Gundlach , Thomas W. Baumgarte , David Hilditch

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

For the formation of a black hole in the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field, we calculate a critical exponent that governs the black hole angular momentum for slightly non-spherical initial data near the black hole threshold.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 D. Garfinkle , C. Gundlach , J. M. Martin-Garcia

We study gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in Einstein-aether theory (general relativity coupled to a dynamical unit timelike vector field). The initial value formulation is developed, and numerical simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Garfinkle , Christopher Eling , Ted Jacobson

We examine a one-parameter family of analytical solutions representing spherically symmetric collapse of a nonlinear massless scalar field with self-interaction in an asymptotically flat spacetime. The time evolution exhibits a type of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Xuefeng Zhang , H. Lu

We numerically simulate gravitational collapse in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes away from spherical symmetry. Starting from initial data sourced by a massless real scalar field, we solve the Einstein equations with a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Hans Bantilan , Pau Figueras , Markus Kunesch , Paul Romatschke

Gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in spherically symmetric anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes presents a new phenomenology with a series of critical points whose dynamics is discretely self-similar as in the asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-01 Daniel Santos-Oliván , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We describe a formalism for studying spherically symmetric collapse of the massless scalar field in any spacetime dimension, and for any value of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. The formalism is used for numerical simulations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 V. Husain , G. Kunstatter , B. Preston , M. Birukou

We summarize results from a study of spherically symmetric collapse of a {\it charged} (complex) massless scalar-field \cite{Hod}. We present an analytic argument which conjecture the generalization of the mass-scaling relation and echoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Shahar Hod , Tsvi Piran

We study critical behavior in the collapse of massive spherically symmetric scalar fields. We observe two distinct types of phase transition at the threshold of black hole formation. Type II phase transitions occur when the radial extent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Patrick R. Brady , Chris M. Chambers , Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

We consider three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant in the presence of a scalar and an Abelian gauge field. Both fields are conformally coupled to gravity, the scalar field through a nonminimal coupling with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Marcela Cardenas , Oscar Fuentealba , Cristian Martinez

In this paper, we investigate the critical collapse leading to primordial black hole (PBH) formation in a universe dominated by a self-interacting scalar field with a quartic potential, comparing it to the well-known radiation-dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Luis E. Padilla , Ethan Milligan , David J. Mulryne , Juan Carlos Hidalgo

The mass of an AdS black hole represents its enthalpy, which in addition to internal energy, generally includes the energy required to assemble the system in its environment. In this paper, we consider black holes immersed in a more complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 David Kastor , Sourya Ray , Jennie Traschen

We consider four-dimensional Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a dilaton scalar field with a supergravity-inspired scalar potential. We obtain an exact time-dependent spherically symmetric solution describing gravitational collapse to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-21 Xuefeng Zhang , H. Lu

We present exact dynamical and inhomogeneous solutions in three-dimensional AdS gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field. They contain stealth configurations of the scalar field overflying the BTZ spacetime and also solutions with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Luis Avilés , Hideki Maeda , Cristian Martinez