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Naked Singularities in Spherically Symmetric, Self-Similar Spacetimes

Sanjay M. Wagh, Keshlan S. Govinder

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0112064

Abstract

We show that all known naked singularities in spherically symmetric self-similar spacetimes arise as a result of singular initial matter distribution. This is a result of the peculiarity of the coordinate transformation that takes these spacetimes into a separable form. Therefore, these examples of naked singularities are of no apparent consequence to astrophysical observations or theories.

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