On naked singularities and the collapse of self-gravitating Higgs fields

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2005.V9.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ2642825zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mihalis Dafermos

Publication date 5 September 2007

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0403033, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1144070452

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We consider the problem of collapse of a self-gravitating Higgs field, with potential bounded below by a (possibly negative) constant. The behaviour at infinity may be either asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS. This problem has received much attention as a source for possible violations of weak cosmic censorship in string theory. In this paper, we prove under spherical symmetry that ``first singularities arising in the non-trapped region must necessarily emanate from the centre. In particular, this excludes the formation of a certain type of naked singularity which was recently conjectured to occur.

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