Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity

Details Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity

2008-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2593v1

Phys.Rev.D78:064057,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

56 pages, 42 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.064057

Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi models as specific spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity simplify in their reduced form some of the mathematical ingredients of black hole or cosmological applications. The conditions imposed in addition to spherical symmetry turn out to take a simple form at the kinematical level of loop quantum gravity, which allows a discussion of their implications at the quantum level. Moreover, the spherically symmetric setting of inhomogeneity illustrates several non-trivial properties of lattice refinements of discrete quantum gravity. Nevertheless, the situation at the dynamical level is quite non-trivial and thus provides insights to the anomaly problem. At an effective level, consistent versions of the dynamics are presented which implement the conditions together with the dynamical constraints of gravity in an anomaly-free manner. These are then used for analytical as well as numerical investigations of the fate of classical singularities, including non-spacelike ones, as they generically develop in these models. None of the corrections used here resolve those singularities by regular effective geometries. However, there are numerical indications that the collapse ends in a tamer shell-crossing singularity prior to the formation of central singularities for mass functions giving a regular conserved mass density. Moreover, we find quantum gravitational obstructions to the existence of exactly homogeneous solutions within this class of models. This indicates that homogeneous models must be seen in a wider context of inhomogeneous solutions and their reduction in order to provide reliable dynamical conclusions.

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