NAKED SINGULARITIES IN NONSELF-SIMILAR GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF RADIATION SHELLS

Non-self-similar gravitational collapse of imploding radiation is shown to give rise to a strong curvature naked singularity. The conditions are specified for the singularity to be globally naked and the strength of the same is examined along nonspacelike curves and along all the families of nonspacelike geodesics terminating at the singularity in the past.