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Evolving dust shells

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)
The reduction of the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner canonical formulation of general relativity developed in the first paper of this series is applied to the full time-evolution problem for spherically symmetric charged dust shells. Detailed pictures of shell evolution are produced. Among other things, it is found that under certain well-defined circumstances the asymptotically flat spacelike hypersurfaces of constant time ''pinch off'' and become completely closed, the closure point being a locally naked singularity.
Research Organization:
Engineering Science Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
OSTI ID:
6378882
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 23:12; ISSN PRVDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English