Strengths of singularities in Vaidya spacetimes
- 15 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 35 (4) , 1531-1532
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.35.1531
Abstract
The strengths of shell-focusing singularities in the ingoing Vaidya spacetimes are examined in terms of limiting focusing conditions. The singularities are found to be strong-curvature singularities only for mass functions which are initially linear functions of the advanced time.Keywords
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