1998/11/01 by Andrei V. Frolov
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Circular symmetry #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Exact solutions in general relativity #Gravitation #Gravitational collapse #Gravitational field #Massless particle #Mathematical physics #Mechanics #Perturbation (astronomy) #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Rotational symmetry #Scalar field #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.104011
published as Phys. Rev. D 59, 104011 (1999) · RevTeX 3.1, 15 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 1998/11/01 · openalex publication_date 1999/04/13 · arxiv updated 2016/08/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This paper studies the non-spherical perturbations of the continuously self-similar critical solution of the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field (the Roberts solution). The exact analysis of the perturbation equations reveals that there are no growing non-spherical perturbation modes.