Choptuik's scaling in higher dimensions

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Sorkin, E [1 ]
Oren, Y [1 ]
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[1] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
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10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124005
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P1 [天文学];
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We extend Choptuik's scaling phenomenon found in general relativistic critical gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field to higher dimensions. We find that in the range 4 <= D <= 11 the behavior is qualitatively similar to that discovered by Choptuik. In each dimension we obtain numerically the universal numbers associated with the critical collapse: the scaling exponent gamma and the echoing period Delta. The behavior of these numbers with increasing dimension seems to indicate that gamma reaches a maximum and Delta a minimum value around 11 <= D <= 13. These results and their relation to the black hole-black string system are discussed.
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