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Phys. Rev. D 66, 084006 (2002) [7 pages]

Collapsing perfect fluid in self-similar five dimensional space-time and cosmic censorship

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S. G. Ghosh*
Department of Mathematics, Science College, Congress Nagar, Nagpur-440 012, India

S. B. Sarwe†
Department of Mathematics, St. Francis De Sales’ College, Seminary Hills, Nagpur-440 006, India

R. V. Saraykar‡
Department of Mathematics, Nagpur University, Nagpur-440 010, India

Received 5 May 2002; published 11 October 2002

We investigate the occurrence and nature of naked singularities in the gravitational collapse of a self-similar adiabatic perfect fluid in a five dimensional space-time. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler and thus violate the cosmic censorship conjecture.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.084006
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.084006
PACS:
04.50.+h, 04.20.Dw, 04.20.Jb, 04.70.Bw

*Author to whom all correspondence should be directed. Electronic address: sgghosh@hotmail.com

†Electronic address: sbsarwe@rediffmail.com

‡Electronic address: sarayaka@nagpur.dot.net.in

 
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