scholarly journals SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF A DUST CLOUD IN THIRD-ORDER LOVELOCK GRAVITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2317-2335 ◽  
Author(s):  
KANG ZHOU ◽  
ZHAN-YING YANG ◽  
DE-CHENG ZOU ◽  
RUI-HONG YUE
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Dust Cloud ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
High Order ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Lovelock Gravity ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Relativistic Case ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis

We investigate the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of an incoherent dust cloud by considering a LTB-type spacetime in third-order Lovelock Gravity without cosmological constant, and give three families of LTB-like solutions which separately corresponding to hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic. Notice that the contribution of high-order curvature corrections have a profound influence on the nature of the singularity, and the global structure of spacetime changes drastically from the analogous general relativistic case. Interestingly, the presence of high order Lovelock terms leads to the formation of massive, naked and timelike singularities in the 7D spacetime, which is disallowed in general relativity. Moveover, we point out that the naked singularities in the 7D case may be gravitational weak therefore may not be a serious threat to the cosmic censorship hypothesis, while the naked singularities in the D ≥ 8 inhomogeneous collapse violate the cosmic censorship hypothesis seriously.

NATURE OF THE SINGULARITIES IN HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL HUSAIN SPACE–TIME

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 1359-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. D. PATIL ◽  
S. S. ZADE
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Space Time ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis

We generalize the earlier studies on the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in four-dimensional space–time to higher dimensions. It is found that the central singularities may be naked in higher dimensions but depend sensitively on the choices of the parameters. These naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong that violate the cosmic censorship hypothesis.

INHOMOGENEOUS DUST COLLAPSE WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 707-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. GHOSH
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Dust Cloud ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Space Time ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Asymptotic Flatness ◽  
Sitter Background ◽  
Strong Curvature

We investigate the occurrence of naked singularities in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud in an expanding de Sitter background — a piece of Tolman–Bondi–de Sitter space–time. It turns out that the collapse proceed in the same way as in the Minkowski background, i.e., the strong curvature naked singularities form and thus violate the cosmic censorship conjecture. Our result unambiguously support the fact that the asymptotic flatness of space–time is not a necessary ingredient for the development of naked singularities.

scholarly journals SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF A DUST CLOUD IN EINSTEIN–GAUSS–BONNET GRAVITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (28) ◽  
pp. 2135-2147 ◽  
Author(s):  
KANG ZHOU ◽  
ZHAN-YING YANG ◽  
DE-CHENG ZOU ◽  
RUI-HONG YUE
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Dust Cloud ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Relativistic Case ◽  
Bonnet Gravity ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Dimensional Spacetime ◽  
General Relativistic ◽  
Bonnet Term

We explore the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric dust cloud in the Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity without a cosmological constant, and obtain three families of LTB-like solutions. It is shown that the Gauss–Bonnet term has a profound influence on the nature of singularities, and the global structure of spacetime changes drastically from the analogous general relativistic case. Interestingly, the formation of a naked, massive and uncentral singularity, allowed in five-dimensional spacetime, is forbidden if D≥6. Moreover, such singularity is gravitational strong and a serious counterexample to CCH.

scholarly journals GENERATING STATIC, SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC BLACK HOLES IN LOVELOCK GRAVITY

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 2061-2082 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. HABIB MAZHARIMOUSAVI ◽  
O. GURTUG ◽  
M. HALILSOY
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Matter Field ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Lovelock Gravity ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Test Particles ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Symmetric Black Hole

We present the generalization of a known theorem to generate static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in higher-dimensional Lovelock gravity. Particular limits such as Gauss–Bonnet (GB) and Einstein–Hilbert (EH) in any dimension N yield all the solutions known to date with an energy–momentum. In our generalization, with special emphasis on third order Lovelock gravity, we have found two different class of solutions characterized by the matter field parameter. Several particular cases are studied and properties related to asymptotic behaviors are discussed. Our general solution, which covers topological black holes as well, splits naturally into distinct classes such as Chern–Simon (CS) and Born–Infeld (BI) in higher-dimensions. The occurence of naked singularities is studied and it is found that the space–time behaves nonsingularly in the quantum-mechanical sense when it is probed with quantum test particles. The theorem is extended to cover Bertotti–Robinson (BR) type solutions in the presence of the GB parameter alone. Finally, we prove also that extension of the theorem for a scalar–tensor source of higher dimensions (N > 4) fails to work.

scholarly journals Testing Cosmic Censorship in Kerr-Like Collapse Situations

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (30) ◽  
pp. 2237-2242
Author(s):  
Wiesław Rudnicki
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Naked Singularity ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Kerr Solution ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Final State ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis

According to the cosmic censorship hypothesis of Penrose, naked singularities should never occur in realistic collapse situations. One of the major open problems in this context is the existence of a naked singularity in the Kerr solution with |a|>m; this singularity can be interpreted as the final product of collapse of a rapidly rotating object. Assuming that certain very general and physically reasonable conditions hold, we show here, using the global techniques, that a realistic gravitational collapse of any rotating object, which develops from a regular initial state, cannot lead to the formation of a final state resembling the Kerr solution with a naked singularity. This result supports the validity of the cosmic censorship hypothesis.

scholarly journals NAKED SINGULARITIES IN THE CHARGED VAIDYA–De SITTER SPACETIME

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. 801-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. BEESHAM ◽  
S. G. GHOSH
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
De Sitter Spacetime ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Sitter Spacetime ◽  
Sitter Background ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis

We study the occurrence of naked singularities in the spherically symmetric collapse of a charged null fluid in an expanding de Sitter background — a piece of charged Vaidya–de Sitter spacetime. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in Tipler's sense and thus violate the cosmic censorship hypothesis.

scholarly journals HIGHER DIMENSIONAL INHOMOGENEOUS DUST COLLAPSE AND COSMIC CENSORSHIP

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 2747-2747
Author(s):  
A. BEESHAM
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
De Sitter Spacetime ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Naked Singularities ◽  
Singularity Theorems ◽  
Sitter Spacetime ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis ◽  
Strong Curvature

The singularity theorems of general relativity predict that gravitational collapse finally ends up in a spacetime singularity1. The cosmic censorship hypothesis (CCH) states that such a singularity is covered by an event horizon2. Despite much effort, there is no rigorous formulation or proof of the CCH. In view of this, examples that appear to violate the CCH and lead to naked singularities, in which non-spacelike curves can emerge, rather than black holes, are important to shed more light on the issue. We have studied several collapse scenarios which can lead to both situations3. In the case of the Vaidya-de Sitter spacetime4, we have shown that the naked singularities that arise are of the strong curvature type. Both types of singularities can also arise in higher dimensional Vaidya and Tolman-Bondi spacetimes, but black holes are favoured in some sense by the higher dimensions. The charged Vaidya-de Sitter spacetime also exhibits both types of singularities5.

scholarly journals Gravitational collapse of charged dust cloud in the Lovelock gravity

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiju Ohashi ◽  
Tetsuya Shiromizu ◽  
Sanjay Jhingan
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Dust Cloud ◽  
Charged Dust ◽  
Lovelock Gravity
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