Living Reviews in Relativity: latest publication

11 December 2007


Living Reviews in Relativity
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/
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Today, Living Reviews in Relativity has published
an update of the review article on
"Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse".

This is a completely restructured and updated review
with a new co-author, José M. Martín-García. Omitted
some details not central to the topic, e.g., in
Sections 3.2 and 4.1 (new 2.4) of 1999 version;
original Section 4.4 with technical details has been
dropped. References have been updated and increased
in number from 124 to 195.

Please find the abstract and further details below.

PUB.NO. lrr-2007-5
Gundlach, Carsten and Martín-García, José Maria
"Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse"

ACCEPTED: 2007-12-06
PUBLISHED: 2007-12-11

ABSTRACT:
As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of 
initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and 
surprising simplicity. Universality, powerlaw scaling of the black hole 
mass, and scale echoing have given rise to the term “critical phenomena”. 
They are explained by the existence of exact solutions which are attractors 
within the black hole threshold, that is, attractors of codimension one in 
phase space, and which are typically self-similar. Critical phenomena give 
a natural route from smooth initial data to arbitrarily large curvatures 
visible from infinity, and are therefore likely to be relevant for cosmic 
censorship, quantum gravity, astrophysics, and our general understanding of 
the dynamics of general relativity.

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