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Self-Similar Collapse of Conformally Coupled Scalar Fields

H. P. de Oliveira, E. S. Cheb-Terrab, DFT-UERJ, Brazil

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9512010

Abstract

A massless scalar field minimally coupled to the gravitational field in a simplified spherical symmetry is discussed. It is shown that, in this case, the solution found by Roberts, describing a scalar field collapse, is in fact the most general one. Taking that solution as departure point, a study of the gravitational collapse for the self-similar conformal case is presented.

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