Gravitational collapse of massless scalar field and cosmic censorship

Dalia S. Goldwirth*, Tsvi Piran

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Abstract

We present a numerical study of the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field. We calculate the future evolution of new initial data, suggested by Christodoulou, and we show that in spite of the original expectations these data lead only to singularities engulfed by an event horizon.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3575-3581
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume36
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987
Externally publishedYes

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