Cosmic censorship in higher dimensions

2004/05/07 by Rituparno Goswami, Pankaj S. Joshi, Pankaj S Joshi · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.69.104002

published as Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 104002 · 4 Pages, Revtex4, 1 figure

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Abstract

We show that the naked singularities arising in dust collapse from smooth initial data (which include those discovered by Eardley and Smarr, Christodoulou, and Newman) are removed when we make a transition to higher dimensional spacetimes. Cosmic censorship is then restored for dust collapse, which will always produce a black hole as the collapse end state for dimensions D>~6, under conditions to be motivated physically such as the smoothness of initial data from which the collapse develops.

Citations

• Higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse and cosmic censorship
• Strengths of naked singularities in Tolman-Bondi spacetimes
• On Continued Gravitational Contraction

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