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No naked singularities in homogeneous, spherically symmetric bubble spacetimes?

Olivier Sarbach and Luis Lehner
Phys. Rev. D 69, 021901(R) – Published 30 January 2004
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Abstract

We study the evolution of Kaluza-Klein bubble spacetimes in vacuum and electrovac scenarios by numerical means. We find strong evidence against the formation of naked singularities in (i) scenarios with negative masses displaying initially collapsing conditions and (ii) scenarios with negative masses displaying initially expanding conditions, previously reported to give rise to such singularities. Additionally, we show that the presence of strong gauge fields implies that an initially collapsing bubble bounces back and expands. By fine-tuning the strength of the gauge field we find that the solution approaches a static bubble solution.

  • Received 19 August 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.021901

©2004 American Physical Society

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Olivier Sarbach and Luis Lehner

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810, USA

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Vol. 69, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2004

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