Critical Behavior of Black Hole Formation in a Scalar Wave Collapse
Abstract
We present a self-similar model of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field with a parameter p. The black hole formation is explicitly shown to occur only in the strong-field implosion of p >1. The field evolution in the critical limit p → 1 is compared with numerical results found by Choptuik.
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