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Phys. Rev. D 8, 2363–2368 (1973)

Naked Singularities, Thin Shells, and the Reissner-Nordström Metric

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David G. Boulware*
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 and Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154

Received 7 June 1973; published in the issue dated 15 October 1973

The time development of a thin charged shell is studied and it is shown that it can collapse to form a naked singularity if, and only if, the matter energy density of the shell is negative.

© 1973 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.8.2363
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.8.2363
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*Work supported in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.