Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-07-17
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 124024
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
RevTeX 4; 6 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.124024
We examine the global structure of scalar field critical collapse spacetimes using a characteristic double-null code. It can integrate past the horizon without any coordinate problems, due to the careful choice of constraint equations used in the evolution. The limiting sequence of sub- and supercritical spacetimes presents an apparent paradox in the expected Penrose diagrams, which we address in this paper. We argue that the limiting spacetime converges pointwise to a unique limit for all r>0, but not uniformly. The r=0 line is different in the two limits. We interpret that the two different Penrose diagrams differ by a discontinuous gauge transformation. We conclude that the limiting spacetime possesses a singular event, with a future removable naked singularity.
Frolov Andrei V.
Pen U.-L.
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