What is the spacetime of \em physically realizable spherical collapse?

2002/08/31 by Sanjay M. Wagh, Ravindra V. Saraykar, R. V. Saraykar +5 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0209001

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Abstract

We argue that a particular spacetime, a spherically symmetric spacetime with hyper-surface orthogonal, radial, homothetic Killing vector, is a physically meaningful spacetime that describes the problem of spherical gravitational collapse in its full "physical" generality.

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