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arxiv: 1405.1146 · v2 · pith:3WURYMLRnew · submitted 2014-05-06 · 🌀 gr-qc

All black holes in Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi inhomogeneous dust collapse

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keywords blackcollapseholeprofilesingularitydensitydustinhomogeneous
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Within the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi formalism for gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous dust we analyze the parameter space that leads to the formation of a globally covered singularity (i.e. a black hole) when some physically reasonable requirements are imposed (namely positive radially decreasing and quadratic profile for the energy density and avoidance of shell crossing singularities). It turns out that a black hole can occur as the endstate of collapse only if the singularity is simultaneous as in the standard Oppenheimer-Snyder scenario. Given a fixed density profile then there is one velocity profile for the infalling particles that will produce a black hole. All other allowed velocity profiles will terminate the collapse in a locally naked singularity.

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