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hep-th1996★ 15 cited
Quantum Naked Singularities in 2d Dilaton Gravity
Cenalo Vaz, Louis Witten
Roughly speaking, naked singularities are singularities that may be seen by timelike observers. The Cosmic Censorship conjecture forbids their existence by stating that a reasonabl…
hep-th1993★ 24 cited
Formation and Evaporation of a Naked Singularity in 2D Gravity
Cenalo Vaz, Louis Witten
We describe a classical configuration of conformal matter forming a naked singularity and discuss its subsequent Hawking evaporation within the context of two dimensional dilaton g…
hep-th1992
Do Black Holes Form?
Richard Gass, Louis Witten
We argue that the collapse of a non-rotating object into a black hole has not been proved to be dynamically stable. There are unstable modes and one should explore whether they may…