Naked singularities and other features of self-similar general-relativistic gravitational collapse
Abstract
Self-similar solutions are commonly used to describe Newtonian gravitational collapse. We examine, here, the structure of general-relativistic spherical collapse solutions for a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state. We find that these solutions are quite different from the homogeneous Oppenheimer-Snyder dust collapse solution on which our intuition is so heavily based. The most amazing feature that we find is the generic appearance of naked singularities in these solutions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- August 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.42.1068
- Bibcode:
- 1990PhRvD..42.1068O