Universal Scaling and Echoing in Gravitational Collapse of a Complex Scalar Field

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21 December 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9412066

Abstract

This paper studies gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field at the threshold for black hole formation, assuming that the collapse is spherically symmetric and continuously self-similar. A new solution of the coupled Einstein-scalar field equations is derived, after a small amount of numerical work with ordinary differential equations. The universal scaling and echoing behavior discovered by Choptuik in spherically symmetrical gravitational collapse appear in a somewhat different form. Properties of the endstate of the collapse are derived: The collapse leaves behind an irregular outgoing pulse of scalar radiation, with exactly flat spacetime within it.

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Version 1, 1994-12-21, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 51 (8), 4198.

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