Critical collapse of a massive vector field

2003/05/03 by David Garfinkle, Robert B. Mann, Robert Mann +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.064015

published as Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 064015 · 7 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2003/05/03 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a massive vector field. The result is that there are two critical solutions. One is equivalent to the Choptuik critical solution for a massless scalar field. The other is periodic.

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