Higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse and cosmic censorship

2001/08/03 by Sushant G. Ghosh, S G Ghosh, Aroonkumar Beesham +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.64.124005

published as Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 124005 · 15 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, 2 tables

arxiv created 2001/08/03 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by higher dimensional Tolman-Bondi space-times. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler. Higher dimensions seem to favor black holes rather than naked singularities.

Citations

• Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
• Strengths of naked singularities in Tolman-Bondi spacetimes

Cited by

• Cosmic censorship in higher dimensions
• Higher dimensional dust collapse with a cosmological constant
• Topological charged black holes in high dimensional spacetimes and their formation from gravitational collapse of a type II fluid