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arxiv: gr-qc/0403078 · v3 · submitted 2004-03-17 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Numerical simulation of a possible counterexample to cosmic censorship

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keywords censorshipcosmicinitialsimulationdatawallherenumerical
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A numerical simulation is presented here of the evolution of initial data of the kind that was conjectured by Hertog, Horowitz and Maeda to be a violation of cosmic censorship. That initial data is essentially a thick domain wall connecting two regions of anti-deSitter space. The initial data has a free parameter that is the initial size of the wall. The simulation shows no violation of cosmic censorship, but rather the formation of a small black hole. The simulation described here is for a moderate wall size and leaves open the possibility that cosmic censorship might be violated for larger walls.

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