Spherical dust collapse in higher dimensions

Rituparno Goswami and Pankaj S. Joshi
Phys. Rev. D 69, 044002 – Published 6 February 2004
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Abstract

We consider here whether it is possible to recover cosmic censorship when a transition is made to higher-dimensional spacetimes, by studying the spherically symmetric dust collapse in an arbitrary higher spacetime dimension. It is pointed out that if only black holes are to result as the end state of a continual gravitational collapse, several conditions must be imposed on the collapsing configuration, some of which may appear to be restrictive, and we need to study carefully if these can be suitably motivated physically in a realistic collapse scenario. It would appear, that, in a generic higher-dimensional dust collapse, both black holes and naked singularities would develop as end states as indicated by the results here. The mathematical approach developed here generalizes and unifies the earlier available results on higher-dimensional dust collapse as we point out. Further, the dependence of black hole or naked singularity end states as collapse outcomes on the nature of the initial data from which the collapse develops is brought out explicitly and in a transparent manner as we show here. Our method also allows us to consider here in some detail the genericity and stability aspects related to the occurrence of naked singularities in gravitational collapse.

  • Received 24 July 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.044002

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Rituparno Goswami* and Pankaj S. Joshi

  • Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India

  • *Electronic address: goswami@tifr.res.in
  • Electronic address: psj@tifr.res.in

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Vol. 69, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2004

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