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arxiv: 1107.2728 · v1 · pith:TCO63URRnew · submitted 2011-07-14 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a dust cloud in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-th
keywords gravitationalcloudcollapsedusteinstein-gauss-bonnetgravitysingularityspace-time
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We explore the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric dust cloud in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity without a cosmological constant, and obtain three families of LTB-like solutions. It is shown that the Gauss-Bonnet term has a profound influence on the nature of singularities, and the global structure of space-time changes drastically from the analogous general relativistic case. Interestingly, the formation of a naked, massive and uncentral singularity, allowed in 5-dimensional space-time, is forbidden if $D\geq6$. Moreover, such singularity is gravitational strong and a serious counter example to CCH.

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