Instability of Flat Space Enclosed in a Cavity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2013-01-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We consider a spherically symmetric self-gravitating massless scalar field enclosed inside a timelike worldtube with a perfectly reflecting wall. Numerical evidence is given that arbitrarily small generic initial data evolve into a black hole.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.2934,
title = {Instability of Flat Space Enclosed in a Cavity},
author = {Maciej Maliborski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2934},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 7 figures; Revised version, consistent with published paper