Examining gravitational collapse with test scalar fields

Examining gravitational collapse with test scalar fields

Numerical simulations are performed of a test scalar field in a spacetime undergoing gravitational collapse. The behavior of the scalar field near the singularity is examined and implications for generic singularities are discussed. In particular, our example is the first confirmation of the Belinsk...

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Veröffentlicht in:Classical and quantum gravity 2010-08, Vol.27 (16), p.165019-165019
Hauptverfasser: Saotome, Ryo, Akhoury, Ratindranath, Garfinkle, David
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Asymptotic properties
Computer simulation
Exact sciences and technology
General relativity and gravitation
Gravitational collapse
Mathematical models
Physics
Quantum gravity
Scalars
Singularities
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Zusammenfassung:Numerical simulations are performed of a test scalar field in a spacetime undergoing gravitational collapse. The behavior of the scalar field near the singularity is examined and implications for generic singularities are discussed. In particular, our example is the first confirmation of the Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifschitz (BKL) conjecture for an asymptotically flat spacetime.
ISSN:0264-9381
1361-6382
DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/27/16/165019