| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 168, 2018
Joint International Conference of ICGAC-XIII and IK-15 on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Classical Gravity | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816802002 | |
| Published online | 09 January 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816802002
Gravitational Collapse of Massless Fields in an Expanding Universe
Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
* e-mail: yoo@gravity.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Published online: 9 January 2018
Gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field with the periodic boundary condition in a cubic box is reported. This system can be regarded as a lattice universe model. The initial data is constructed for a Gaussian like profile of the scalar field taking the integrability condition associated with the periodic boundary condition into account. For a large initial amplitude, a black hole is formed after a certain period of time. While the scalar field spreads out in the whole region for a small initial amplitude. The difference of the late time expansion law of the lattice universe depending on the final fate of the gravitational collapse is discussed.
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