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The massless scalar field in the higher-dimensional Kerr black hole (Myers- Perry solution with a single rotation axis) has been investigated. It has been shown that the field equation is separable in arbitrary dimensions. The quasi-normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Daisuke Ida , Yuki Uchida , Yoshiyuki Morisawa

We confirm recent numerical results of echoing and mass scaling in the gravitational collapse of a spherical Yang-Mills field by constructing the critical solution and its perturbations as an eigenvalue problem. Because the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Carsten Gundlach

We study here the evolution of a massless scalar field in a spacetime, developing from a regular initial spacelike surface. The Einstein equations and regularity and boundary conditions governing the same are specified. Both homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-13 Swastik Bhattacharya , Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S. Joshi

We give an exact spherically symmetric solution for the Einstein-scalar field system. The solution may be interpreted as an inhomogeneous dynamical scalar field cosmology. The spacetime has a timelike conformal Killing vector field and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Viqar Husain , Erik A. Martinez , Dario Nunez

In this paper, we observe the collapse of a mass-less scalar field covariantly. We show that the strengths of the collapsing and dispersing modes of this scalar field will decide whether the collapse will end up in a black-hole or disperse.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Koushiki , Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S. Joshi

We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, $D$. In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Craig R. Clark , Guilherme L. Pimentel

An exact four-dimensional black hole solution of gravity with a minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field is reported. The event horizon is a surface of negative constant curvature enclosing the curvature singularity at the origin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian Martinez , Ricardo Troncoso , Jorge Zanelli

We present the findings of an investigation of critical behavior in the collapse of spherically symmetric distributions of massive scalar field. Two distinct types of phase transition are observed at the verge of black hole formation and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris M. Chambers , Patrick R. Brady , Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

We develop the large $D$ limit of general relativity for spherically symmetric scalar fields in both asymptotically flat and asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces. The leading order equations in the $1/D$ expansion can be solved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-30 Moshe Rozali , Benson Way

We studied the influence of dilaton field on the dynamical collapse of a charged scalar one. Different values of the initial amplitude of dilaton field as well as the altered values of the dilatonic coupling constant were considered. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Nakonieczna , Marek Rogatko

We describe a formalism and numerical approach for studying spherically symmetric scalar field collapse for arbitrary spacetime dimension d and cosmological constant Lambda. The presciption uses a double null formalism, and is based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Birukou , V. Husain , G. Kunstatter , E. Vaz , M. Olivier

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

The gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field with a self-interaction term $\lambda\phi^4$ in anti-de Sitter space is investigated. We numerically investigate the effect of the self-interaction term on the critical amplitudes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Wei Ji , Run-Qiu Yang

We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in 6 dimensions. The critical solution has discrete self-similarity. We find the critical exponent \gamma and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 David Garfinkle , Curt Cutler , G. Comer Duncan

We study the critical collapse of a massless scalar field with angular momentum in spherical symmetry. In order to mimic the effects of angular momentum we perform a sum of the stress-energy tensors for all the scalar fields with the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Olabarrieta , Jason F. Ventrella , Matthew W. Choptuik , W. G. Unruh

We study spontaneous scalarization of electrically charged extremal black holes in $D\geq 4$ spacetime dimensions. Such a phenomenon is caused by the symmetry breaking due to quartic interactions of the scalar -- Higgs potential and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Alessio Marrani , Olivera Miskovic , Paula Quezada

It has recently been conjectured [A. Ianniccari {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 133}, 081401 (2024)] that there exists a correspondence between the critical threshold of black-hole formation and the stability properties of null circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Shahar Hod

We study the time evolution of the Misner-Sharp mass and the apparent horizon for gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in the $AdS_{5}$ space-time for both cases of narrow and broad waves by numerically solving the Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Alireza Allahyari , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Reza Mansouri

This paper constructs continuously self-similar solution of a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a scalar field in n dimensions. The qualitative behavior of these solutions is explained, and closed-form answers are provided…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Andrei V. Frolov

Phase transition in spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field is studied in 4-d Einstein gravity. A class of exact solutions that show the evolution of a constant incoming energy flux turned on at a point in the past null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Youngjai Kiem