scholarly journals Initial data giving rise to naked singularities in spherically symmetric dust collapse

Author(s):  
Néstor Ortiz
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 2083-2092
Author(s):  
SHRIRANG S. DESHINGKAR

We study singularities which can form in a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a general matter field obeying weak energy condition. We show that null naked singularities that form in such a collapse can never be observed. No energy can come out of these singularities; thus they will have no physical consequences outside. As this happens for any null singularity, we do not need to assume specific form of matter and establish role of initial data. Hence our result is very general.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (08) ◽  
pp. 1250066 ◽  
Author(s):  
PANKAJ S. JOSHI ◽  
DANIELE MALAFARINA ◽  
RAVINDRA V. SARAYKAR

Here we investigate the genericity and stability aspects for naked singularities and black holes that arise as the final states for a complete gravitational collapse of a spherical massive matter cloud. The form of the matter considered is a general Type I matter field, which includes most of the physically reasonable matter fields such as dust, perfect fluids and such other physically interesting forms of matter widely used in gravitation theory. Here, we first study in some detail the effects of small pressure perturbations in an otherwise pressure-free collapse scenario, and examine how a collapse evolution that was going to the black hole endstate would be modified and go to a naked singularity, once small pressures are introduced in the initial data. This allows us to understand the distribution of black holes and naked singularities in the initial data space. Collapse is examined in terms of the evolutions allowed by Einstein equations, under suitable physical conditions and as evolving from a regular initial data. We then show that both black holes and naked singularities are generic outcomes of a complete collapse, when genericity is defined in a suitable sense in an appropriate space.


2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2317-2335 ◽  
Author(s):  
KANG ZHOU ◽  
ZHAN-YING YANG ◽  
DE-CHENG ZOU ◽  
RUI-HONG YUE

We investigate the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of an incoherent dust cloud by considering a LTB-type spacetime in third-order Lovelock Gravity without cosmological constant, and give three families of LTB-like solutions which separately corresponding to hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic. Notice that the contribution of high-order curvature corrections have a profound influence on the nature of the singularity, and the global structure of spacetime changes drastically from the analogous general relativistic case. Interestingly, the presence of high order Lovelock terms leads to the formation of massive, naked and timelike singularities in the 7D spacetime, which is disallowed in general relativity. Moveover, we point out that the naked singularities in the 7D case may be gravitational weak therefore may not be a serious threat to the cosmic censorship hypothesis, while the naked singularities in the D ≥ 8 inhomogeneous collapse violate the cosmic censorship hypothesis seriously.


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