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Continuous Self-Similarity and $S$-Duality

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-19 v2

Abstract

We study the spherically symmetric collapse of the axion/dilaton system coupled to gravity. We show numerically that the critical solution at the threshold of black hole formation is continuously self-similar. Numerical and analytical arguments both demonstrate that the mass scaling away from criticality has a critical exponent of γ=0.264\gamma = 0.264.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9511024,
  title  = {Continuous Self-Similarity and $S$-Duality},
  author = {Rufus S. Hamade and James H. Horne and John M. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9511024},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, harvmac, six figures uuencoded in separate file

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