Type II Fluid Solutions to Einstein Field Equations in N-Dimensional Spherical Spacetimes

Abstract

A large class of Type II fluid solutions to Einstein field equations in N-dimensional spherical spacetimes is found, wich includes most of the known solutions. A family of the generalized collapsing Vaidya solutions with homothetic self-similarity, parametrized by a constant $\lambda$, is studied, and found that when $\lambda$ $>$ ${\lambda }_c(N)$, the collapse always forms black holes, and when $\lambda$ $<$ ${\lambda }_c(N)$, it always forms naked singularities, where ${\lambda }_c(N)$ is function of the spacetime dimension N only.

16 pages, 2 figures, Revtex, three references added