New Features of Gravitational Collapse in Anti–de Sitter Spacetimes

Daniel Santos-Oliván and Carlos F. Sopuerta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 041101 – Published 26 January 2016

Abstract

Gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in spherically symmetric anti–de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes presents a new phenomenology with a series of critical points whose dynamics is discretely self-similar as in the asymptotically flat case. Each critical point is the limit of a branch of scalar field configurations that have bounced off the AdS boundary a fixed number of times before forming an apparent horizon. We present results from a numerical study that focus on the interfaces between branches. We find that there is a mass gap between branches and that subcritical configurations near the critical point form black holes with an apparent horizon mass that follows a power law of the form MAHMg(pcp)ξ, where Mg is the mass gap and the exponent ξ0.7 appears to be universal.

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  • Received 14 November 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.041101

© 2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Particles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Daniel Santos-Oliván and Carlos F. Sopuerta

  • Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

See Also

Moving closer to the collapse of a massless scalar field in spherically symmetric anti–de Sitter spacetimes

Daniel Santos-Oliván and Carlos F. Sopuerta
Phys. Rev. D 93, 104002 (2016)

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Vol. 116, Iss. 4 — 29 January 2016

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