Collapsing shells of radiation in higher dimensional space-time and the cosmic censorship conjecture

Abstract

Gravitational collapse of radiation shells in a non self-similar higher dimensional spherically symmetric spacetime is studied. Strong curvature naked singularities form for a highly inhomogeneous collapse, violating the cosmic censorship conjecture. As a special case, self similar models can be constructed.

9 pages, latex, no figures, accepted in IJMPA

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