The instability of naked singularities in the gravitational collapse of a scalar field

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1 January 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.math/9901147

Abstract

One of the fundamental unanswered questions in the general theory of relativity is whether ``naked'' singularities, that is singular events which are visible from infinity, may form with positive probability in the process of gravitational collapse. The conjecture that the answer to this question is in the negative has been called ``cosmic censorship.'' The present paper, which is a continuation previous work, addresses this question in the context of the spherical gravitational collapse of a scalar field.

Keywords

GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE
NAKED SINGULARITIES
GENERAL THEORY
SINGULARITIES
SCALAR FIELD
INSTABILITY
QUESTION

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