Naked Singularities, Thin Shells, and the Reissner-Nordström Metric
- 15 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (8) , 2363-2368
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.2363
Abstract
The time development of a thin charged shell is studied and it is shown that it can collapse to form a naked singularity if, and only if, the matter energy density of the shell is negative.Keywords
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