Semiclassical one-loop analysis of solvable near-critical collapse solutions shows quantum corrections selecting a Boulware-like state and producing a growing mode that yields a finite mass gap and a transition to Type I behavior, enforcing weak cosmic censorship.
Critical Collapse of the Massless Scalar Field in Axisymmetry
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We present results from a numerical study of critical gravitational collapse of axisymmetric distributions of massless scalar field energy. We find threshold behavior that can be described by the spherically symmetric critical solution with axisymmetric perturbations. However, we see indications of a growing, non-spherical mode about the spherically symmetric critical solution. The effect of this instability is that the small asymmetry present in what would otherwise be a spherically symmetric self-similar solution grows. This growth continues until a bifurcation occurs and two distinct regions form on the axis, each resembling the spherically symmetric self-similar solution. The existence of a non-spherical unstable mode is in conflict with previous perturbative results, and we therefore discuss whether such a mode exists in the continuum limit, or whether we are instead seeing a marginally stable mode that is rendered unstable by numerical approximation.
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Simulations with Nakamura wave initial data confirm approximately discretely self-similar threshold solutions in vacuum gravitational wave collapse, but without exact self-similarity or a unique critical solution, consistent with prior studies.
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Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse
Semiclassical one-loop analysis of solvable near-critical collapse solutions shows quantum corrections selecting a Boulware-like state and producing a growing mode that yields a finite mass gap and a transition to Type I behavior, enforcing weak cosmic censorship.
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Critical collapse of vacuum spacetimes: Nakamura wave initial data
Simulations with Nakamura wave initial data confirm approximately discretely self-similar threshold solutions in vacuum gravitational wave collapse, but without exact self-similarity or a unique critical solution, consistent with prior studies.