On Choptuik's scaling in higher dimensions

Details On Choptuik's scaling in higher dimensions On Choptuik's scaling in higher dimensions

2005-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502034v2

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 124005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages, 11 eps figures; v2: 2 refs added, improved discussions to match the published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124005

We extend Choptuik's scaling phenomenon found in general relativistic critical gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field to higher dimensions. We find that in the range 4 <= D <= 11 the behavior is qualitatively similar to that discovered by Choptuik. In each dimension we obtain numerically the universal numbers associated with the critical collapse: the scaling exponent gamma and the echoing period Delta. The behavior of these numbers with increasing dimension seems to indicate that gamma reaches a maximum and Delta a minimum value around 11 <= D <= 13. These results and their relation to the black hole--black string system are discussed.

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