Stochastic Control of Tolman-Oppenheimer-Snyder Collapse of Zero-Pressure Stars to Black Holes: Rigorous Criteria for Density Bounds and Singularity Smoothing

arXiv1909.04183MaRDI QIDQ6324974FDOQ6324974

Authors: Steven David Miller 

Publication date: 9 September 2019

Abstract: The Tolman-Oppenheimer-Snyder description gives exact analytical solutions for an Einstein-matter system describing total gravitational collapse of a zero-pressure perfect-fluid sphere, representing a massive star which has exhausted its nuclear fuel. The star collapses to a point of infinite density within a finite comoving proper time interval $[0,t_{\ast }]$, and the exterior metric matches the Schwarzchild black hole metric. The description is re-expressed in terms of a 'density function' $u(t)=(ho(t)/h{o}_o){)}^{1/3}=R^{-1}(t)$ for initial density $u_0=R^{-1}(0)=1$ and radius $R(0)$, whereby the general-relativistic formulation reduces to an autonomous nonlinear ODE for $u(t)$. The solution blows up or is singular at $t=t_{\ast }=pi/2(8piG/3h{o}_o{)}^{1/2}$. The blowup interval $[0,t_{\ast }]$ is partitioned into domains $$,with $t_{\ast }=t_{epsilon}+|epsilon|$ and $|epsilon|ll1$, so that $t_{epsilon}$ can be infinitesimally close to $t_{\ast }$. Randomness or 'stochastic control' is introduced via the 'switching on' of specific (white-noise) perturbations at $t=t_{epsilon}$. Hybrid nonlinear ODES-SDES are then 'engineered' over the partition. Within the Ito interpretation, the resulting density function diffusion $overlineu(t)$ is proved to be a martingale whose supremum, volatility and higher-order moments are finite, bounded and singularity free for all finite $t>t_{epsilon}$. The collapse is (comovingly) eternal but never becomes singular. Extensive and rigorous boundedness and no-blowup criteria are established via various methods, and blowup probability is always zero. The density singularity is therefore smoothed or 'noise-suppressed'. Within the Stratanovitch interpretation, the singularity formation probability is unity; however, null recurrence ensures the expected comoving time for this to occur is now infinite.

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