The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field
| Autor: | Rufus S. Hamade, John M. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Field (physics) media_common.quotation_subject FOS: Physical sciences Collapse (topology) General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) Infinity General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Massless particle Black hole Arbitrarily large Scalar field Scalar curvature Mathematical physics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Classical and Quantum Gravity. 13:497-512 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6382 0264-9381 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/014 |
| Popis: | We report on a numerical study of the spherically symmetric collapse of a self-gravitating massless scalar field. Earlier results of Choptuik(1992, 1994) are confirmed. The field either disperses to infinity or collapses to a black hole, depending on the strength of the initial data. For evolutions where the strength is close to but below the strength required to form a black hole, we argue that there will be a region close to the axis where the scalar curvature and field energy density can reach arbitrarily large levels, and which is visible to distant observers 23 pages, 16 figures, uuencoded gzipped postscript This version omits 2 pages of figures. This file, the two pages of figures and the complete paper are available at ftp://ftp.damtp.cam.ac.uk/pub/gr/rsh1000 |
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