Choptuik scaling in null coordinates
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- 15 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 51 (10) , 5558-5561
Abstract
A numerical simulation is performed of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. The algorithm uses the null initial value formulation of the Einstein-scalar equations, but does not use adaptive mesh refinement. A study is made of the critical phenomena found by Choptuik in this system. In particular it is verified that the critical solution exhibits periodic self-similarity. This work thus provides a simple algorithm that gives verification of the Choptuik results.Keywords
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