Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities

2002/01/14 by B. K. Berger, Beverly K. Berger · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.12942/lrr-2002-1

published as Living Rev. Relativity 2002-1 · 51 pages, 6 figures may be found in online version: Living Rev. Relativity 2002-1 at www.livingreviews.org

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Abstract

This Living Review updates a previous version which its itself an update of a review article. Numerical exploration of the properties of singularities could, in principle, yield detailed understanding of their nature in physically realistic cases. Examples of numerical investigations into the formation of naked singularities, critical behavior in collapse, passage through the Cauchy horizon, chaos of the Mixmaster singularity, and singularities in spatially inhomogeneous cosmologies are discussed.

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