2005/02/28 by Evgeny Sorkin, Yonatan Oren · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.71.124005
published as Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 124005 · 18 pages, 11 eps figures; v2: 2 refs added, improved discussions to match the published version
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We extend Choptuik's scaling phenomenon found in general relativistic critical gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field to higher dimensions. We find that in the range 4\ensuremath≤D\ensuremath≤11 the behavior is qualitatively similar to that discovered by Choptuik. In each dimension we obtain numerically the universal numbers associated with the critical collapse: the scaling exponent \ensuremathγ and the echoing period \ensuremathΔ. The behavior of these numbers with increasing dimension seems to indicate that \ensuremathγ reaches a maximum and \ensuremathΔ a minimum value around 11\ensuremath≤D\ensuremath≤13. These results and their relation to the black hole--black string system are discussed.