A robust proof of the instability of naked singularities of a scalar field in spherical symmetry

DOI10.1007/S00220-018-3157-1MaRDI QIDQ1989879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jue Liu, J. B. Li

Publication date 29 October 2018

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02922

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitynaked singularitiesscalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: Published in 1999, Christodoulou proved that the naked singularities of a self-gravitating scalar field are not stable in spherical symmetry and therefore the cosmic censorship conjecture is true in this context. The original proof is by contradiction and sharp estimates are obtained strictly depending on spherical symmetry. In this paper, appropriate a priori estimates for the solution are obtained. These estimates are more relaxed but sufficient for giving another robust argument in proving the instability, in particular not by contradiction. In another related paper, we are able to prove instability theorems of the spherical symmetric naked singularities under certain isotropic gravitational perturbations without symmetries. The argument given in this paper plays a central role.

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