SELF-SIMILAR COLLAPSE OF CONFORMALLY COUPLED SCALAR FIELDS

Authors
DEOLIVEIRA HP CHEBTERRAB ES
Citation
Hp. Deoliveira et Es. Chebterrab, SELF-SIMILAR COLLAPSE OF CONFORMALLY COUPLED SCALAR FIELDS, Classical and quantum gravity, 13(3), 1996, pp. 425-432
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Classical and quantum gravity → ACNP
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
13
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
425 - 432
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1996)13:3<425:SCOCCS>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A massless scalar field minimally coupled to the gravitational field i n a simplified spherical symmetry is discussed. It is shown that, in t his case, the solution found by Roberts, describing a scalar field col lapse, is in fact the most general one. Taking that solution as a depa rture point, a study of the gravitational collapse for the self-simila r conformal case is presented.