Published March 8, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Future null singularity due to gravitational collapse

  • 1. PDPIAS, Charotar University of Science and Technology, Anand 388421 (Guj), India
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
  • 3. International Centre for Space and Cosmology, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad 380009 (Guj), India

Description

In the case of unhindered gravitational collapse of a matter cloud governed by the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) spacetime, the end-state singularity is either locally visible, globally visible, or completely hidden. We have a past null singularity in the first two cases while a future spacelike singularity in the last case. Here, we show an example of a gravitational collapse model whose end state is a future null singularity (it has a causal property that is unlike the cases involving LTB spacetime). We depict such a distinct causal structure of the singularity by conformal diagrams.

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Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
8 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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© 2024 American Physical Society
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