PRECURSORY SINGULARITIES IN SPHERICAL GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE

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LAKE, K
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[1] Department of Physics, Queenes University at Kingston, Kingston
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3129
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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General conditions are developed for the formation of naked precursory ("shell-focusing") singularities in spherical gravitational collapse. These singularities owe their nakedness to the fact that the gravitational potential fails to be single valued prior to the onset of a true gravitational singularity. It is argued that they do not violate the spirit of cosmic censorship. Rather, they may well be an essentially generic feature of relativistic gravitational collapse.
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