Critical behavior in vacuum gravitational collapse in 4+1 dimensions
Bizoń, Piotr · Chmaj, Tadeusz · Schmidt, Bernd G.
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We show that the 4+1 dimensional vacuum Einstein equations admit gravitational waves with radial symmetry. The dynamical degrees of freedom correspond to deformations of the three-sphere orthogonal to the (t,r) plane. Gravitational collapse of such waves is studied numerically and shown to exhibit discretely self-similar Type II critical behavior at the threshold of black hole formation.
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