Echoing and scaling in Einstein-Yang-Mills critical collapse

Abstract

We confirm recent numerical results of echoing and mass scaling in the gravitational collapse of a spherical Yang-Mills field by constructing the critical solution and its perturbations as an eigenvalue problem. Because the field equations are not scale-invariant, the Yang-Mills critical solution is asymptotically, rather than exactly, self-similar, but the methods for dealing with discrete self-similarity developed for the real scalar field can be generalized. We find an echoing period Delta = 0.73784 +/- 0.00002 and critical exponent for the black hole mass gamma = 0.1964 +/- 0.0007.

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