Critical Phenomena in the Einstein-Massless-Dirac System

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2003-04-01

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304007v2

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 044020

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.044020

We investigate the general relativistic collapse of spherically symmetric, massless spin-1/2 fields at the threshold of black hole formation. A spherically symmetric system is constructed from two spin-1/2 fields by forming a spin singlet with no net spin-angular momentum. We study the system numerically and find strong evidence for a Type II critical solution at the threshold between dispersal and black hole formation, with an associated mass scaling exponent $\gamma ~ 0.26$. Although the critical solution is characterized by a continuously self-similar (CSS) geometry, the matter fields exhibit discrete self-similarity with an echoing exponent $\Delta ~ 1.34$. We then adopt a CSS ansatz and reduce the equations of motion to a set of ODEs. We find a solution of the ODEs that is analytic throughout the solution domain, and show that it corresponds to the critical solution found via dynamical evolutions.

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