Naked Singularities in Spherically Symmetric, Self-Similar Spacetimes

2001/12/24 by Sanjay M. Wagh, Wagh, Sanjay M., Keshlan S. Govinder +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0112064

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arxiv created 2001/12/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We show that all known naked singularities in spherically symmetric self-similar spacetimes arise as a result of singular initial matter distribution. This is a result of the peculiarity of the coordinate transformation that takes these spacetimes into a separable form. Therefore, these examples of naked singularities are of no apparent consequence to astrophysical observations or theories.

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