Instability of flat space enclosed in a cavity

We consider a spherically symmetric self-gravitating massless scalar field enclosed inside a timelike worldtube R×S(3) with a perfectly reflecting wall. Numerical evidence is given that arbitrarily small generic initial data evolve into a black hole.

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2012-11, Vol.109 (22), p.221101-221101, Article 221101
1. Verfasser: Maliborski, Maciej
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We consider a spherically symmetric self-gravitating massless scalar field enclosed inside a timelike worldtube R×S(3) with a perfectly reflecting wall. Numerical evidence is given that arbitrarily small generic initial data evolve into a black hole.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.109.221101