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2009

Singularities and self-similarity in gravitational collapse

NONCOMMUTATIVITY AND SINGULARITIES: PROCEEDINGS OF FRENCH-JAPANESE SYMPOSIA HELD AT IHES IN 2006
  • Tomohiro Harada

Volume
55
Number
First page
15
Last page
30
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
Publisher
MATH SOC JAPAN

Einstein's field equations in general relativity admit a variety of solutions with spacetime singularities. Numerical relativity has recently revealed the properties of somewhat generic spacetime singularities. It has been found that in a variety of systems self-similar solutions can describe asymptotic or intermediate behaviour of more general solutions in an approach to singularities. The typical example is the convergence to an attractor self-similar solution in gravitational collapse. This is closely related to the cosmic censorship violation in the spherically symmetric collapse of a perfect fluid. The self-similar solution also plays an important role in critical phenomena in gravitational collapse. The critical phenomena are understood as the intermediate behaviour around a critical self-similar solution. We see that the convergence and critical phenomena are understood in a unified manner in terms of attractors of codimension zero and one, respectively, in renormalisation group flow.

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