Numerical Study of Cosmic Censorship in String Theory

Abstract

Recently Hertog, Horowitz, and Maeda have argued that cosmic censorship can be generically violated in string theory in anti-de Sitter spacetime by considering a collapsing bubble of a scalar field whose mass saturates the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. We study this system numerically and find that for various choices of initial data black holes form rather than naked singularities, implying that in these cases cosmic censorship is upheld.

16 pages, latex, 10 figures, uses JHEP.cls, v2: minor changes, version to be published in JHEP

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