Critical Behavior of Black Hole Formation in a Scalar Wave Collapse

Y. Oshiro; K. Nakamura; A. Tomimatsu

doi:10.1143/PTP.91.1265

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Critical Behavior of Black Hole Formation in a Scalar Wave Collapse

arXiv:gr-qc/9402017 · doi:10.1143/PTP.91.1265

Abstract

We present a self-similar model of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field with a parameter $p$ . The black hole formation is explicitly shown to occur only in the strong-field implosion of $p > 1$ . The field evolution in the critical limit $p \to 1$ is compared with numerical results found by Choptuik.

DPNU-94-04 (multicol.sty was added.)