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Angular momentum near the black hole threshold in scalar field collapse
D. Garfinkle, C. Gundlach, J. M. Martin-Garcia
For the formation of a black hole in the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field, we calculate a critical exponent that governs the black hole angular momentum for slight…
Scale invariance and critical gravitational collapse
David Garfinkle, Ken Meyer
We examine ways to write the Choptuik critical solution as the evolution of scale invariant variables. It is shown that a system of scale invariant variables proposed by one of the…
The Singularity in Generic Gravitational Collapse Is Spacelike, Local, and Oscillatory
Beverly K. Berger, David Garfinkle, James Isenberg +2
A longstanding conjecture by Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz that the singularity in generic gravitational collapse is spacelike, local, and oscillatory is explored analytical…
Scaling of curvature in sub-critical gravitational collapse
David Garfinkle, G. Comer Duncan
We perform numerical simulations of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. For those data that just barely do not form black holes we find the maximum…