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In the present work the collapse scenario of some exact non-spherical models with a minimally coupled scalar field is studied. Scalar field collapse with planar as well as toroidal, cylindrical and pseudoplanar symmetries have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-21 Koyel Ganguly , Narayan Banerjee

Homothetic scalar field collapse is considered in this article. By making a suitable choice of variables the equations are reduced to an autonomous system. Then using a combination of numerical and analytic techniques it is shown that there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Patrick R Brady

An exact one parameter ($\alpha$) family of solutions representing scalar field collapse is presented. These solutions exhibit a type of critical behaviour which has been discussed by Choptuik. The three possible evolutions are outlined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Patrick R. Brady

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

Studies of black hole formation from gravitational collapse have revealed interesting non-linear phenomena at the threshold of black hole formation. In particular, in 1993 Choptuik studied the collapse of a massless scalar field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Anzhong Wang

Critical collapse of a spherically symmetric domain wall is investigated. The domain wall is made of a minimally coupled scalar field with a double well potential. We consider a sequence of the initial data which describe a momentarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-28 Taishi Ikeda , Chul-Moon Yoo

We study the collapse in spherical symmetry of a massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity using the semiclassical equations that are expected from loop quantum gravity. We find critical behavior of the mass as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Florencia Benitez , Rodolfo Gambini , Luis Lehner , Steve Liebling , Jorge Pullin

We study the singularity created in the supercritical collapse of a spherical massless scalar field. We first model the geometry and the scalar field to be homogeneous, and find a generic solution (in terms of a formal series expansion)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lior M. Burko

We study the gravitational collapse of two thin shells of matter, in asymptotically flat spacetime or constrained to move within a spherical box. We show that this simple two-body system has surprisingly rich dynamics, which includes prompt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Vitor Cardoso , Jorge V. Rocha

The critical formation of low-mass black holes is a historical cornerstone of numerical General Relativity, with important implications in cosmology for censorship conjectures and the production of primordial black holes (PBHs). Concurrent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Cole Kelson-Packer , John Belz

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

In recent numerical simulations of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse a new type of critical behaviour, dominated by a sphaleron solution, has been found. In contrast to the previously studied models, in this case there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 P. Bizoń , T. Chmaj

We study the collapse of a free scalar field in the Brans-Dicke model of gravity. At the critical point of black hole formation, the model admits two distinctive solutions dependent on the value of the coupling parameter. We find one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Steven L. Liebling , Matthew W. Choptuik

In recent years the threshold of black hole formation in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse has been studied for a variety of matter models. In this paper the corresponding issue is investigated for a matter model significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall , Jack Schaeffer

We investigate numerically spherically symmetric collapse of a scalar field in the semi-classical approximation. We first verify that our code reproduces the critical phenomena (the Choptuik effect) in the classical limit and black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Shai Ayal , Tsvi Piran

We study critical phenomena in the gravitational collapse of a radiation fluid. We perform numerical simulations in both spherical symmetry and axisymmetry, and observe critical scaling in both supercritical evolutions, which lead to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-08 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Pedro J. Montero

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 perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a massive vector field. The result is that there are two critical solutions. One is equivalent to the Choptuik critical solution for a massless scalar field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 David Garfinkle , Robert Mann , Chris Vuille

We study the spherically symmetric collapse of a real, minimally coupled, massive scalar field in an asymptotically Einstein-de Sitter spacetime background. By means of an eikonal approximation for the field and metric functions, we obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

We investigate the general relativistic collapse of spherically symmetric, massless spin-1/2 fields at the threshold of black hole formation. A spherically symmetric system is constructed from two spin-1/2 fields by forming a spin singlet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason F. Ventrella , Matthew W. Choptuik