Higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse and cosmic censorship

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作者
Ghosh, SG [1 ]
Beesham, A
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[1] Congress Nagar, Coll Sci, Dept Math, Nagpur 440012, Maharashtra, India
[2] Univ Zululand, Dept Math Sci, ZA-3886 Kwa Dlangezwa, South Africa
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2001年 / 64卷 / 12期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.64.124005
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by higher dimensional Tolman-Bondi space-times. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler. Higher dimensions seem to favor black holes rather than naked singularities.
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