Initial data and spherical dust collapse

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Mena, Filipe C ^a   Tavakol, Reza ^a   Joshi, Pankaj S ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 17044376989     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.044001     Document Type: Article

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20. α(r), α>0.
21. c(r)=const, independently of the particular forms of the functions M and E considered.
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24. b(r)), b≥a-1, and our results follow accordingly.