Scalar field critical collapse in 2+1 dimensions
Scalar field critical collapse in 2+1 dimensions
We carry out numerical experiments in the critical collapse of a spherically symmetric massless scalar field in 2+1 spacetime dimensions in the presence of a negative cosmological constant and compare them against a new theoretical model. We approximate the true critical solution as the n=4 Garfinkle solution, matched at the light cone to a Vaidya-like solution, and corrected to leading order for the effect of ?<0. This approximation is only C3 at the light cone and has three growing modes. We conjecture that pointwise it is a good approximation to a yet unknown true critical solution that is analytic with only one growing mode (itself approximated by the top mode of our amended Garfinkle solution). With this conjecture, we predict a Ricci-scaling exponent of ?=8/7 and a mass-scaling exponent of ?=16/23, compatible with our numerical experiments.
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Jałmużna, Joanna
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Gundlach, Carsten
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Chmaj, Tadeusz
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Jałmużna, Joanna
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Gundlach, Carsten
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Chmaj, Tadeusz
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Jałmużna, Joanna, Gundlach, Carsten and Chmaj, Tadeusz
(2015)
Scalar field critical collapse in 2+1 dimensions.
Physical Review D, 92, , [124044].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.124044).
Abstract
We carry out numerical experiments in the critical collapse of a spherically symmetric massless scalar field in 2+1 spacetime dimensions in the presence of a negative cosmological constant and compare them against a new theoretical model. We approximate the true critical solution as the n=4 Garfinkle solution, matched at the light cone to a Vaidya-like solution, and corrected to leading order for the effect of ?<0. This approximation is only C3 at the light cone and has three growing modes. We conjecture that pointwise it is a good approximation to a yet unknown true critical solution that is analytic with only one growing mode (itself approximated by the top mode of our amended Garfinkle solution). With this conjecture, we predict a Ricci-scaling exponent of ?=8/7 and a mass-scaling exponent of ?=16/23, compatible with our numerical experiments.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 21 December 2015
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