Instability of Flat Space Enclosed in a Cavity

Abstract

We consider a spherically symmetric self-gravitating massless scalar field enclosed inside a timelike worldtube R× S3 with a perfectly reflecting wall. Numerical evidence is given that arbitrarily small generic initial data evolve into a black hole.

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