HOW TO BYPASS BIRKHOFF THROUGH EXTRA DIMENSIONS: A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING THE GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE IN VACUUM

DOI10.1142/S0218271806009649zbMATH Open1112.83051arXivgr-qc/0605114OpenAlexW3105573573MaRDI QIDQ3434360FDOQ3434360

Authors: Piotr Bizoń, Bernd G. Schmidt 

Publication date: 25 April 2007

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is fair to say that our current mathematical understanding of the dynamics of gravitational collapse to a black hole is limited to the spherically symmetric situation and, in fact, even in this case much remains to be learned. The reason is that Einstein's equations become tractable only if they are reduced to a 1+1 dimensional system of partial differential equations. Due to this technical obstacle, very little is known about the collapse of pure gravitational waves because by Birkhoff's theorem there is no spherical collapse in vacuum. In this essay we describe a new cohomogeneity-two symmetry reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations in five and higher odd dimensions which evades Birkhoff's theorem and admits time dependent asymptotically flat solutions. We argue that this model provides an attractive 1+1 dimensional geometric setting for investigating the dynamics of gravitational collapse in vacuum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605114

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational collapseBirkhoff's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Cites Work

• Examples of naked singularity formation in the gravitational collapse of a scalar field
• A mathematical theory of gravitational collapse
• The problem of a self-gravitating scalar field

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