Admissibility of initial data in spherical collapse

Details Admissibility of initial data in spherical collapse Admissibility of initial data in spherical collapse

1997-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9702029v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

2 pages, TeX

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Gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric cloud has been extensively studied to investigate the nature of resulting singularity. However, there has been considerable debate about the admissibility of certain initial density distributions. Using the Newtonian limit of the equations governing collapse of a fluid with an equation of state p=p(\rho) it is shown that the density distribution has to be even function of r in a spherically symmetric situation provided dp/d\rho \ne 0, even in comoving coordinates. We show that recent claim by Singh that the discrepancy pointed out earlier is due to their use of comoving coordinates is totally incorrect. It is surprising that he expects the use of comoving coordinates to make any difference in this matter. It is also argued that strong curvature naked singularities in gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric dust do not violate the cosmic censorship hypothesis.

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