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Phys. Rev. D 70, 104015 (2004) [6 pages]

Gravitational collapse in anti de Sitter space

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David Garfinkle*
Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 35 King Street North, Waterloo Ontario, Canada N2J 2W9

Received 28 August 2004; published 11 November 2004

A numerical and analytic treatment is presented here of the evolution of initial data of the kind that was conjectured by Hertog, Horowitz and Maeda to lead to a violation of cosmic censorship. That initial data is essentially a thick domain wall connecting two regions of anti de Sitter space. The evolution results in no violation of cosmic censorship, but rather the formation of a small black hole.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104015
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104015
PACS:
04.20.Dw, 04.25.Dm

*Electronic address: david@physics.uoguelph.ca